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"D'you mean to tell me you have forgotten your lady love of the hoop-skirts and ringlets?" she had demanded. "She never wore ringlets and crinolines!" he had answered. "Well, bustles and pleats, then?" "No," Peter had told her, frankly. "I shall always love her, in a way. But she is married; she never thinks of me.
Life had not come back, and the young man's face looked very handsome in death, the curls pushed back from his brow, and his long features still and colourless like a carved marble. Then with a "lack-a-day" and "alas," in bustles Mrs. Butterby with a bottle of cordial in one hand and a bunch of burning feathers in the other. "Fling that rubbish in the chimney," says the Don.
"Archieolopically?" said Rose-Pompon. "What sawnee is that? Has he a tail? does he live in the water?" "Never mind," observed the Bacchanal Queen; "these are words of wise men and conjurers; they are like horsehair bustles they serve for filling out that's all.
"She hed a figger jest like them fashion-paper pictures you 've seen, an' the very day any new styles come to Boston Fiddy Maddox would hev 'em before sundown; the biggest bustles 'n' the highest hats 'n' the tightest skirts 'n' the longest tails to 'em; she'd git 'em somehow, anyhow!
Naturally there was an opportunity during the day of observing many things in some detail. Who shall say, for example, that the Kalingas are not civilized? The women and girls all wear bustles, a continuous affair made of bejuco, an endless roll, in short, of varying radius, that over the small of the back being considerably the greatest.
So Time, Nature's handy-man, bustles to and fro about the many rooms, making all things tidy, covers with sweet earth the burnt volcanoes, turns to use the debris of the ages, smoothes again the ground above the dead, heals again the beech bark marred by lovers. In the beginning I was far from being a favourite with my schoolmates, and this was the first time trouble came to dwell with me.
"But while the young man is saying all the pretty things that the time allows, and the young woman is trying to think what she shall answer, her maid, who has been running about all this time, looking for things she has lost, bustles up, hears a part of what the young man says, and tells him that her mistress is already betrothed; and the mistress quickly says yes, but that nobody yet knows to whom.
The more readers the more they can charge the "advertiser" in the back or side pages, who here illustrate their deadly corsets, their new dye for the hair, their beauty doctors, freckle eradicators, powders for the toilet, bustles, and the thousand and one things which shrewd dealers are anxious to have women take up. The children also have their journals or "magazines."
Miss Jane is the first to get busy. She bustles about and gets the food served out, and we begins to eat. But still there's not so much conversation that you'd notice it. This goes on till we reaches the concluding stages, and then Uncle Dick comes up to the scratch. "How is the fowls, Mr Moore?" he says. "Gimme some more pie," says Jerry. "What?" 'Uncle Dick repeats his remark.
... A launch bustles in from the Renown and brings up quickly a white light between her two brass funnels and green and red side lights.
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