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Updated: September 10, 2025
With a quick gesture the girl clasped her mantle about her, and haughtily moved away without acknowledging the Duke's bow. Neither M. nor Madame Darbois had seen anything of what had just passed. The Duke de Morlay's bad humour vented itself against Count Styvens. "I have just passed the Darbois in the cloak-room.
Several of the fellows had clubbed their rooms, and lent them to the man who was giving the tea; he used one of the apartments for a cloak-room, and he meant the other for the social overflow from his own.
She threw herself back in a corner of the cab with an affected little laugh, and turned her head away from him. Peter Ruff walked back into the cloak-room for his coat and hat, and sighed softly to himself. It was the end of the one sentimental episode of his life!
"You and your gown are charming. Come, we are late, and that isn't permitted to débutantes." It was Mrs. Magnelius Grandcourt who was giving the first dinner and dance for Geraldine Seagrave. In the cloak-room she encountered some very animated women of the younger married set, who spoke to her amiably, particularly a Mrs.
Mag "blessed" her for the words that had hurt her so to speak. Surely there was balm for all wounds, even those which burned the deepest. Faith's morning was the happiest she had ever known in the store and at the luncheon hour, as she went to the cloak-room, she had but one wish in her heart, and that was for the conversion of wicked Lou Willis. As Faith passed Mr.
The girls were in a flutter in one cloak-room at the right of the stage, asking more questions in a minute than one could answer in an hour; the boys in the other cloak-room wanted all sorts of help; and three or four of the actors were attacked with stage-fright as they peered through a hole in the curtain and saw some friend or relative arrive and sit down in the audience.
De Grost's tone was final and his bow valedictory. Bernadine watched him stroll in a leisurely way through the foyer, exchanging greetings here and there with friends; watched him enter the cloak-room, from which he emerged with his hat and overcoat; watched him step into his automobile and leave the restaurant. He turned back with a clouded face and threw himself into an easy-chair.
Langham, hurrying down, saw Rose coming out of the cloak-room, muffled up in brown furs, a pale, child-like fatigue in her looks which set his heart beating faster than ever. 'Miss Leyburn, how are you going home? 'Will you ask for a hansom, please? 'Take my arm, he said, and she clung to him through the crush till they reached the door. Nothing but private carriages were in sight.
He rose less resentful than regretful that his ill-luck obliged him to quit just when play was most interesting, and resignedly sought the cloak-room for his coat and hat. And there he found De Morbihan again! standing all garmented for the street, mouthing a huge cigar and wearing a look of impatient discontent. "At last!" he cried in an aggrieved tone as Lanyard appeared in the offing.
Raoul ignored the question. "I fear, sir, your learning will discover half-a-dozen mistakes," said he, addressing Narcissus and leading the way towards the panel. "But whilst I think of it," Endymion persisted, "I saw half-a-dozen old baize chair-covers behind the cloak-room door. Don't hesitate to take one; you can return it to-morrow or next day."
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