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"Yes," said he, smiling over the dragon-embroidered barrier; "I admit that I am even now shuddering upon the verge of matrimony." "Indeed!" she marvelled, secure in her fortress. "Have you selected an accomplice?" "Split me, yes!" said Mr. Erwyn. "And have I the honor of her acquaintance?" said Miss Allonby. "Provoking!" said Mr. Erwyn; "no woman knows her better." Miss Allonby smiled. "Dear Mr.
He was about to turn away also, not particularly relishing the remaining company, when, with a rush, Poppy was beside him, in stately garments of black velvet and glimmering tissue of silver; her head and shoulders draped with something of daring and magnificence, in her blue-purple jewelled dragon-embroidered scarf.
Never surely had been such wild doings in that sedate and reputable place of business doings in which gross absurdity and ingenious cruelty went hand in hand; while, by some queer freak of the imagination, poor Pascal Pelletier, of hectic and pathetic memory, appeared as leader of the revels, at which the Lady of the Windswept Dust, sad-eyed, inscrutable of countenance, her dragon-embroidered scarf drawn closely about her shoulders, looked on.
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