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Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair; and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine.
Not that the reflection of the eight curl-papers she had neatly twisted up was conveyed to her brain. She was in a brown study, during which the following thoughts passed through her mind, and they all pointed one way: That that fine little fellow was not to blame for his people's misconduct. That they would never be found.
I knew it was necessary to surprise him, and so I borrowed the photograph and used it to transmogrify the queen of spades card. Just for an instant he lost his nerve, but that was enough." "But, as Brownson said, how about the letter?" Indiman drew from his pocket the wig, to which the curl-papers were still attached. He unrolled one and showed it to me.
The principal inhabitants had all been changed into old newspapers, and in that form were preserving their window-blinds from dust, and wrapping all their smaller household gods in curl-papers. I walked through gloomy streets where every house was shut up and newspapered, and where my solitary footsteps echoed on the deserted pavements.
Black's advice on all points with a docility which caused that sanguine lady to predict that she would be a star before she knew where she was. "Is this the stage? How dusty and dull it is by daylight!" said Christie next day, as she stood by Lucy on the very spot where she had seen Hamlet die in great anguish two nights before. "Bless you, child, it's in curl-papers now, as I am of a morning. Mr.
'It is I, Miss La Creevy, said Nicholas, putting down the box and looking in. 'Bless us! exclaimed Miss La Creevy, starting and putting her hand to her curl-papers. 'You're up very early, Mr Nickleby. 'So are you, replied Nicholas. 'It's the fine arts that bring me out of bed, Mr Nickleby, returned the lady. 'I'm waiting for the light to carry out an idea.
"'You can go, Rosalie, said Madame de Merret to her maid; 'I can put in my curl-papers myself. She scented disaster at the mere aspect of her husband's face, and wished to be alone with him.
Miss Mellins, her head still covered with curl-papers, disappeared in his wake, and when the sisters were alone Evelina beckoned to Ann Eliza. "You promised," she whispered, grasping her sister's arm; and Ann Eliza understood. She had not yet dared to tell Miss Mellins of Evelina's change of faith; it had seemed even more difficult than borrowing the money; but now it had to be done.
A sunbeam slanting through the passage rested on the fringe of curl-papers about her head so that she looked like some elderly saint wearing a rather ragged halo. "I have received news," she announced, with more than usual firmness, "which will make it necessary for us to rise immediately. Dress as quickly as you can, and help your little brother. What a state you have got that bed into!
His wife, looking ghastly in her curl-papers with her eyes and mouth wide open in fright, was trying to pull him back, and was evidently terrified to glance round the kitchen, lest some midnight robber should meet her gaze.
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