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Cricklander was experiencing all the exciting emotions which presumably the knights of old enjoyed when engaged in a tournament. She was not even disturbed when the dressing-gong rang and she had not yet won. It was only a postponement of one of the most entrancing games she had ever played in her successful life. And Mr.
So we ought to do all we can for her happiness. That is why I just mentioned this." The dressing-gong began to boom. "I must fly," said Sybell, depositing a butterfly kiss on Rachel's forehead. And she flew. "I wish I knew what I felt about him," said Rachel to herself. "I don't much like hearing him called obtuse and superficial, but I suppose I should like still less to hear Sybell praise him.
Only, alas! it was all too short. "We will arrange to sit together after dinner," he whispered, as even before the dressing-gong had rung, Lady Katherine came and fussed about, and collected every one, and more or less drove them off to dress, saying, on the way up-stairs, to me, that I need not come down if I had rather not.
If she had been a singing-bird she would have trilled to the piano; but she had not a note of music. The dressing-gong gave her direction. There was plenty to be done. "The gong! I'm going to make myself smart, James. Quite smart. Are you coming up?" James had the paper open in the middle. "Eh? Oh, there's lots of time run away. I'm rather busy." "You're not a bit busy. But I'll go."
She must play the game! So her eyes had to be bathed, the window opened, and the icy air breathed in, and at last she had quieted herself down to the look of a person with a headache, when the dressing-gong sounded, and her maid came into the room. This, the last dinner at Montfitchet, passed more quietly than the rest.
If they took him away from me, he'd be quite capable of strangling the C.O. He's a funny beggar." "And what kind of a soldier?" the Dean asked politely. "There's not a finer one in all the armies of the earth," said Oliver. After much further talk the dressing-gong boomed softly through the house. "You've got the green room, Marmaduke," said Peggy.
In its far-stretching stateliness there was something soothing. She came back to the sound of the dressing-gong with a better strength to resist the trial before her. Well she knew her aunt would have something to say on the subject of her interference in Leonard Everard's affairs.
It is difficult to be romantic when you are laden with chicken-feed in an unwieldy iron pot, but he had resolved that this portion of the proceedings should be brief. The birds should dine that evening on the quick-lunch principle. Then to the more fitting surroundings of the rose-garden! There was plenty of time before the hour of the sounding of the dressing-gong. Perhaps, even a row on the lake
Dinner is at half-past seven, and the dressing-gong sounds at seven. Mrs. Aylmer's maid will help you to dress, Miss Sharston that is, unless you have brought your own." "Oh, I don't keep a maid," said Kitty merrily; "I hate maids, and in any case I am not rich enough to afford one." Miss Keys raised her brows in a somewhat supercilious way.
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