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"'The Lady Crinoline sits upstairs alone, said the page, 'and is a-thinking of you. Then he added in a whisper, 'Do you go at her straight, Mr. Macassar; slip-slap, and no mistake. "All honour to the true and brave! "As Macassar walked across the drawing-room, Crinoline failed to perceive his presence, although his boots did creak rather loudly.
Instead of these pleasant rooms, where should I be lodged? In a dingy den looking on a backyard excluded from the sun by day and vocal with cats by night; while Mrs. Mivers luxuriated in two drawing-rooms with southern aspect and perhaps a boudoir. My brougham would be torn from my uses and monopolized by 'the angel of my hearth, clouded in her crinoline and halved by her chignon.
With his elbows on the long board on which she was ironing, he greedily watched all these women's clothes spread about him, the dimity petticoats, the fichus, the collars, and the drawers with running strings, wide at the hips and growing narrower below. "What is that for?" asked the young fellow, passing his hand over the crinoline or the hooks and eyes. "Why, haven't you ever seen anything?"
In this new carriage now came the four ladies to pay a morning visit to Mrs. Tudor. It was wonderful to see into how small dimensions the Misses Neverbend had contrived to pack, not themselves, but their crinoline. As has before been hinted, Gertrude did not love Mrs. Val; nor did she love Clem the danseuse; nor did she specially love the Misses Neverbend.
My heart's at my office, my heart is always there My heart's at my office, docketing with care; Docketing the papers, and copying all day, My heart's at my office, though I be far away. "'Ah me! said the Lady Crinoline " 'What is she a peer's daughter? said Uncle Bat. 'Not exactly, said Charley, 'it's only a sort of semi-poetic way one has of speaking of one's heroine.
If it were possible to imagine a world without any women or children in it, du Maurier's contemporary, Keene, so far as we can judge from his art, would have got along very well in such a world. He would have missed the voluminous skirt that followed the crinoline, with its glorious opportunity for beautiful spacing of white in a drawing, more than he would have missed its wearer.
For our affection's sake I wish it had been a picturesque one; but truth obliges me to confess that, when our visitor did at last arrive, Matilda and I were chiefly struck by the fact that she wore thick boots, and did not wear crinoline. An upright, quite ladylike, but rather old-fashioned little figure, somewhat quaint from the simplicity of her dress.
Let me finish it, and then we can discuss it afterwards. "Having thus described the Lady Crinoline " 'You haven't described her at all, said Linda; 'you haven't got beyond her clothes yet. 'There is nothing beyond them, said Charley. 'You haven't even described her face, said Katie; 'you have only said that she had a turned-up nose.
'That's his fun, said Katie: 'besides, he always makes little of himself. I am quite sure Harry could never have made all that about Macassar and Crinoline out of his own head. 'No! because he doesn't think of such nonsensical things. I declare, Miss Katie, I think you are in love with Master Charley.
The lustre hanging from the ceiling, which is known in Germany as a "Kronleuchter" was in the form of an old crinoline. At the entrance to the banqueting hall hung the representation of a gold medal, which a lady painter was trying in vain to grasp.
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