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She hired a Chinese cook, who slept at home; cleared out, for the use of Lisa and the twins, a small storeroom in which she commonly kept Eldorado face-powder; and herself occupied a sofa in the apartment of a friend of humanity in the next street.
Even Olga's resourcefulness was not proof against Hermia's persistent audacity, especially as she was aware of a smudge of face-powder on John Markham's coat lapel which could not have been attributed by any chance to the deficiencies of her unlucky maid. "Poor Georgette!" said Hermia softly, watching Olga's fingers quickly twist the erring strand into place.
But she smiled at her reflection, because she knew Soames would see what she saw. He spoke, so she'd hear his voice as he did. "Gail!" He felt a hand which was her hand spill something on a levelled surface before her. It smoothed the spilled stuff. It was face-powder, spread on a dressing-table top. A finger wrote. She looked down at what was written there. "Help Fran," he read. "You Must!"
It would have been well for Napoleon had he heeded this advice, but as he walked about the Tuileries alone, and listened in vain for the King of Rome's demands for more candy, and failed to see that interesting infant sliding down the banisters and loading his toy cannons with his mother's face-powder, he was oppressed by a sense of loneliness, and could not resist the temptation to send for them.
"I don't think I really liked Olga's face-powder on your coat, dear." He was silent. "I knew you didn't love her. You couldn't. She wasn't your sort." More silence. "You didn't care for her, did you?" jerkily. He looked down into her eyes tenderly but made no reply. She sighed but asked no more questions.
She opened her little bag, and took from it, together with her face-powder, her call for the rehearsal, which she held out to Robert. It was a source of unending delight to her to gaze admiringly at this document, because it bore the heading of the Comédie, with the remote and awe-inspiring date of its foundation. "You see, I make my début as Agnès in L'École des Femmes." "It's a fine part."
Then I said: "Why, it would be dreadful! Mother wouldn't let me!" Aunt Elizabeth came closer and put her hands on my shoulders. She has a little fragrance about her, not like flowers, but old laces, perhaps, that have been a long time in a drawer with orris and face-powder and things. "Peggy," said she, "never tell your mother I asked you." I felt myself stiffen.
A small gold star, added to the coloured spot, hovering over the name of a city, was explained, in the lower left-hand corner, as denoting the fact that the Eldorado face-powder was exclusively used there, and that S. Cora Grubb was the sole agent for the Pacific coast. Joseph's coat faded into insignificance in comparison with the city of Mrs.
It was the older-style pharmacy, with a gilt mortar and pestle for a sign; and as she entered, a bell attached by a pulley rang somewhere in a thin, tattling voice. The soda fountain, fountain pen, the picture postcard, the umbrella, and the face-powder demonstrator had not yet invaded here. Isaac Neugass, Chemist was just that. His walls were lined in labeled jars of panacea.
Joanna was beginning to have a bit of a headache, but she said nothing she did not want him to leave on her account or to find that he did not think of leaving.... She felt very hot, and fanned herself with her programme. Most of the audience were hot. "Joanna," said Bert, "don't you ever use powder?" "Powder? What d'you mean?" "Face-powder what most girls use.
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