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"I do hope you found the yard in order." The yellow dress she was wearing did not match the tone of her voice, and the frilly blue apron tied round her waist belied the frostiness of her gray-green eyes. Nevertheless, her rancor was real. "Sorry," he said. "I didn't know your back yard was out of bounds."
Really she looked more like a fairy, with her frilly white frock and her golden hair and blue eyes. "Hello, Flossy Flouncy!" called out King, using his pet name for Delight; "you're a daisy May Queen! I offer you my humble homage!" A daisy May Queen was an appropriate term, for Delight's white frock was trimmed and wreathed with garlands of daisies.
To her new-fangled dress, frilly about the hips and tight below the knees, June took a sudden liking a charming colour, flax-blue. 'She makes a picture, thought June.
Draper, an old likeness of Effie, pretty when Effie wasn't there. When they looked at you you saw that your muslin was not as good as new. When they looked at Mamma you saw that her lavender silk was old-fashioned and that nobody wore black jet crosses now. You were frilly and floppy when everybody else was tight and straight in Princess dresses. Mamma was more beautiful than Mrs.
Addcock herself and was astonishingly frilly and coquettish emanating from such a source, and began to depart. "I'll take him on the other side of the auditorium," I answered, with respect for advice that I knew must be good through experience. And thus that pink and white, cooing, obstreperously hungry baby was made an instrument of cruel fate and
Well, I never was at a loss when we were boy and girl together." She paused and they heard the sound of music. "There's a frilly style of talk that belongs with that down there," she went on. There was a hint of contempt in her gesture. "But you and I used to get along better or worse with plain speech." The flash of a smile of her own softened her moue.
Quite frilly curtains adorned Mary's office windows, fresh flowers were kept in a fragile vase, a marble bust of Dante guarded the filing cabinet, and despite the general cleaning she used a special little silk duster for her own knicknacks. On a table was a very simple tea service with a brass samovar for days when the luncheon hour proved too stormy for an outside excursion.
And if he had been so long, surely there was hope for Tennelly to see, too. Somehow, he wanted Tennelly to see! Bonnie Brentwood was awake and expecting him, the nurse said. She lay propped up by pillows, draped about with a dainty, frilly dressing-sacque that looked too frivolous for Nurse Wright, yet could surely have come from no other source.
Wherever did you get such old-fashioned wall-paper, Peggy?" "Miss Ashwell found it in one of the shops," said Peggy, "and we painted the border ourselves to match the chintz. Aren't those frilly little petticoats for the chairs the cunningest things?"
But even stripping the Manor attic of its "truck" did not satisfy Robin and the day before Christmas found her House of Laughter lacking in the things she wanted most. "It ought to have jolly pictures and ever so many books and pillows and nice, frilly curtains," she mourned, wondering how much they would cost and how she could ever get them.
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