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The remainder of her remark was lost in the frou-frou of skirts as the eight women began slowly to thread their way between the tables to the door. Lady Holme found herself immediately behind Miss Schley, who moved with impressive deliberation and the extreme composure of a well-brought-up child thoroughly accustomed to being shown off to visitors.
Then came the night of the first star. It was seen early in the morning rushing over Winchester; leaving a gentle frou-frou behind it. Trelawny, of the Wells' Observatory, the greatest authority on Meteoric Crinolines, watched it anxiously.
I can not look upon your face to welcome you, for I am blind!" There was a frou-frou of skirts upon the velvet carpet, and the next moment Iris Vincent's arms were about her.
As a rule you will find few there, but you may know they are a special few; you will see the grave, quiet face of the thinker, who has chosen that spot because he does not want to be disturbed by the frou-frou of ladies' dresses, or the music of their happy voices; he wants to be alone with the sea and the wind.
He hurt no one so much as himself. One of my productions in the provinces was an English version of "Frou-Frou," made for me by my dear friend Mrs. Comyns Carr, who for many years designed the dresses that I wore in different Lyceum plays.
"Bravo, Vronsky!" he heard shouts from a knot of men he knew they were his friends in the regiment who were standing at the obstacle. He could not fail to recognize Yashvin's voice though he did not see him. "O my sweet!" he said inwardly to Frou-Frou, as he listened for what was happening behind. "He's cleared it!" he thought, catching the thud of Gladiator's hoofs behind him.
He saw her, knew her, felt her, realised her, in every detail of her mind, her soul, her person down to the very intonations of her speech down to the veins in her hands, the rings on her fingers down to her very furs and laces, the frou-frou of her skirts, the scent upon her pocket-handkerchief. He had numbered the hairs of her head, almost."
The whole village was hushed save for the Litany, the clinking of the metal chains as the choir-boys swung the censers and the frou-frou of hundreds of starched petticoats superposed, brushing one against the other with a ceaseless movement which produced a riot of brilliant colouring.
And yet there was a subtle frou-frou of rustling skirts as the women drew slightly away, and a decided appearance of discomfort on the faces of the men, to whom an unpleasant truth was suddenly and sharply conveyed, and who found themselves strangely powerless to combat, or argue out its real meaning. Colonel Estcourt came to the rescue.
The voices and footsteps, even the frou-frou of worshippers going to church, the voices and footsteps of worshippers returning from church, had floated up to the patient's open window. Sunlight had drawn across his room in one pale beam, and vanished. A few callers had called. Hothouse flowers, waxen and pale, had been left with messages of sympathy.
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