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It was far from a pleasant task, and despite the fact that each had donned a dust-coat, both were pretty well soaked before the limb was gotten away from the car. Then Roger made another inspection of the automobile. "I think it's O. K.," he said. "Anyway, we'll try it." And then they cranked up once more; and the journey was continued.
Then he made off in a fume to Dale's lodging, secured a linen dust-coat which the man happened to have with him, returned to the hotel, and hurried unseen to his room, an easy matter in the Royal Bath, where many staircases twine deviously to the upper floors, and brilliantly decorated walls dazzle the stranger.
"For goodness' sake, George." And Billie Dore detached herself from the group, a trim vision in blue. She wore a dust-coat and a motor veil, and her eyes and cheeks were glowing from the fresh air. "For goodness' sake, George, what are you doing here?" "I was just going to ask you the same thing." "Oh, I motored down with a boy I know. We had a breakdown just outside the gates.
At ten o'clock next morning Her Highness met me in the big marble hall of the hotel dressed in the smartest motor-clothes, with a silk dust-coat and the latest invention in veils pale blue with long ends twisted several times around her throat. Even in that costume she looked dainty and extremely charming.
At that moment the door opened and Hermione appeared, a radiant Hermione who clasped Mrs. Trapes in her arms and tangled her up in her long motor veil and laughed again. "Oh, Ann, such a day!" she exclaimed, laying aside her long dust-coat. "New York is a paradise when you're rich! No more bargain days and clawing matches over the remnant counter, Ann!
"Don't forget to remind me that I'm to tell you Gridley's story, Howard," said the president, rising out of the depths of his lounging-chair and stripping off the dust-coat, "Reads like a romance only I fancy it was anything but a romance for poor Lizzie Gridley. Let's go and see what the cook has done for us." At luncheon Lidgerwood was made known to the other members of the private-car party.
'Better take your dust-coat off, hadn't you? Mrs Brindley suggested to the friend. She and I were side by side on a sofa at the other end of the room. 'I may as well, Mr Colclough admitted, and threw the long garment on to a chair. 'Look here, Bob, my hands are stiff with steering. 'Don't find fault with your tools, said Mr Brindley; 'and sit down. No, my boy, I'm going to play the top part.
Hunt's wild hair had been smartly barbered, he had on a swagger dust-coat, and beneath it flannels of the smartest cut. Further, he bore himself as if smart clothes and smart cars had always been items of his equipment. "Well, young fellow, spill it," he commanded. "What do I look like?" "Like Solomon in all his glory. No, more like the he-dressmaker of the Queen of Sheba."
She wore a large red hat covered with feathers shading into pink, and a claret-colored frock that fitted her superb figure in a fashion that caused Isabel to draw her brows together and suggest a dust-coat. "It is too sweet of you," said Miss Boutts, as she sprang into the buggy. "I feel so flattered when you take any notice of insignificant little me.
My first impression was that it was one of the gendarmes, who are always on duty at that spot, but next instant, owing to the bend of the road, my search-light fell full upon the person in question, and I was amazed to find it to be none other than the audacious Bindo himself Bindo in a light dust-coat and a soft white felt hat of that type which is de rigueur each season at Monty among smartly-groomed men.
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