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Hamilton, playfully addressing his daughter, about a week after the conversation with her mother. The dressing-bell had sounded, and the various inmates of Oakwood were obeying its summons as he spoke, and Caroline laughingly asked her father how long he had taken such an interest in dress. "Does your ladyship think I never do?" he replied, with mock gravity.
And now, as the dressing-bell has rung these ten minutes, and it will take you at least half-an-hour to beautify your little person, I advise you to make the most of your time. And by all means, Valerie, stick to your resolution never marry, my dear, never marry; for all men are tyrants."
On the afternoon of the 3rd day of January, therefore, Eustace Daintree drove his sister-in-law over to Shadonake in the open basket pony-carriage, and deposited her and her box safely at the stone-colonnaded door of that most imposing mansion, which she entered exactly ten minutes before the dressing-bell rang, and was conducted almost immediately upstairs to her own room.
'When I heard that big bell thundering away, I was so afraid to be late that I came down with one bracelet, and I have torn my glove too. 'It was only the first bell the dressing-bell, he said. 'Humph! That's something new since I was here last, said she tartly. 'You remind me of how long it is since you dined with us, Miss O'Shea.
It was the most soothing hum I ever heard in my life." "Mr. Brooks was telling me of some new phases of life," she answered. "It is very interesting, even if it is a little sad." Molyneux eyed them both for a moment in thoughtful silence. "H'm!" he remarked. "Dinner is the next phase of life which will interest me. Has the dressing-bell gone yet?" "You gross person," she exclaimed.
By the time she had completed these operations a dressing-bell sounded, and quickly exchanging her travelling costume for a filmy little dinner dress of some soft, shimmering material, she sallied downstairs in search of the dining-room. Mrs.
The Colonel and some of the men were still out on the moors, but a few guests were sitting about in the big, cool entrance hall, waiting for tea. Among them were Mrs. Vansome and her son, to both of whom I was at once presented. They happened to be the only Catholics of the house party. We chatted amicably for some time, until the dressing-bell broke up the gathering for the nonce.
But, alas! the clock was checking the flying minutes and chanting the departing quarters, and presently the dressing-bell rang, Mrs. de Noël stirred, gave a long sigh, and, plainly from the fulness of her heart and of the thoughts she had so long been following, said "Mr. Lyndsay, is it not strange? So many people from the great world come and ask me if there is any God.
At the same moment the pretty bugle-call rang out that marked the half hour before dinner- time. "Isn't it fun," cried Patty, "to have the dressing-bell a trumpet? Except at my own party the other night I've never been bugled to my meals. What shall we wear, Elise?" "Not our prettiest dresses. We must save those for the concert, or whatever gaieties they may have.
All turned to with more ardor than skill, and in a very few moments the conglomeration upon the floor had vanished. How it fared with Ruth and Edith when it came time to dress has never been disclosed. However, the room restored to outward order, twelve girls set to work to fashion caps and masks, and, as the last one was completed, the dressing-bell rang and all scattered to prepare for dinner.
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