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Godd, in her immaculate white chiffons, her wide-open blue eyes fixed upon his face, her expression full of grief and reproach. "Oh, Mr. Gudge!" she seemed to be saying. "How can you? Mr. Gudge, is this Peace. . . justice. . . Truth. . . Law?" And Peter realized with a pang that he had cut himself off forever from Mount Olympus, and from the porch chair with the soft silken pillows!

Here were soft draperies instead, laces and chiffons. The suggestion was not to the eyes but to the mind. How devilishly clever it all was. Perhaps there were some things he ought to discuss with Graham. He wondered how a man led up to such a thing. Nolan bent toward him. "I've been watching for a girl," he said, "but I don't see her. Last time I was here I came with Chris. She was his girl."

There are matters of which one would hardly dare to talk to Paul. In all things he is the great man. He could hardly condescend to chiffons. Now Sydney can and does. When he is in the mood, on the vital subject of trimmings a woman could not appeal to a sounder authority. I tell him, if he had been a dressmaker, he would have been magnificent. I am sure he would. This morning I had an adventure.

He looked down at her with a sudden darkness in his young eyes.... And still she slept, wrapped in the sorry mantle of his masquerade, the torn chiffons of her negligée fluttering over her slim, bare feet. There were several approaches to the American excavations.

"It has nothing but CHIFFONS in it." "If ever I DO think of souls I think of them as silly gauzy things floating about like little balloons," was her cheerful response. "That's an idea," he answered with a rather louder laugh. "Yours might be made of pink and blue gauze spangled with those things you call paillettes." The fancy attracted her.

Now it was full of artistic odds and ends her fiddle, of course, and piles of music, her violin stand, a few deal tables and cane chairs beautified by a number of chiffons, bits of Liberty stuffs with the edges still ragged, or cheap morsels of Syrian embroidery.

Look for "chiffons" in the dictionary, and you will see it simply defined as "rags;" yet "chiffons" represent the very opposite of rags feminine, and conjure up a multitudinous army of feminine fashions, fripperies, fancies, follies, indispensable aids and adjuncts of the feminine toilet.

Of course, the country is not so accessible for the Americans; it's out of the reach of their cheap excursionists. But how opportune that curious tower is, and the bridge! of course, it's correct to admire them?" Mary Masters and Eve, who had been quietly discussing chiffons, got up from their chairs with a preconcerted air.

"This would be thought a very good stage-dress for me," she said, pleadingly, "in a part where I was to come on as a poor Jewess and sing to fashionable Christians." "It would be effective," said Hans, with a considering air; "it would stand out well among the fashionable chiffons." "But you ought not to claim all the poverty on your side, Mirah," said Amy.

'Oh! these things are my snare, said Eleanor, laughing 'If I have any gift, it is for chiffons. 'Any gift! said Lucy wondering 'when you do so much for Mr. Manisty? Mrs. Burgoyne shrugged her shoulders. 'Ah! well he wanted a secretary and I happened to get the place, she said, in a more constrained voice. 'Miss Manisty told me how you helped him in the winter. And she and Mr.

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