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Haines turned to see a handsomely gowned young woman who had the stamp of a patrician's daughter in her bearing and her countenance a brunette, with delicate features, though determination shone in her eyes and appeared in the self-contained poise of her head. She was the imperious type of beauty and suggested to Haines the dry point etchings of Paul Helleu.
Agnes gazed at the stranger with shy, unenvious admiration; the latter stood on the stone step just where the big chestnut by the door cast flickering gleams and shadows over her dress and shining hair. She was tall, and gowned in some simple white material that fell about her in graceful folds.
Rich doesn't want to see how you're gowned. Mrs. Sanders will lend you a needle and thread and help you patch yourself." Lavinia would have protested but Spiller laughed away her objections, and departed with a final injunction to be in readiness when he called. When the girl was alone she looked around her new abode with interest and curiosity.
To-night a handsome, stylishly gowned woman of about thirty came up to me with a radiant smile and a strange brightness in her eyes. There were five hundred couples dancing on the floor, and the music and sound of sliding feet made it difficult to hear her. She said: "You handsome soldier boy! Come dance with me?" I replied politely that I did not dance.
The holy and jovial father had made faint pretence of kissing this second bride; the ladies, colonels, dons, etc., though the joke struck them as a trifle coarse were beginning to laugh and clap hands again and the gowned jester to bow to right and left, when Bras-Coupé, tardily realizing the consummation of his hopes, stepped forward to embrace his wife. "Bras-Coupé!"
Rosa slipped in behind the bar, late that evening, beautifully gowned, and with her dark hair dressed high. Her vivid face glowed like a scarlet poppy and was bright with smiles. Three or four men in the crowded bar-room rose to their feet and drank to her bright eyes and strolled across to the bar. "Soon now," she whispered, "I shall sweep out the lights.
Shiela's maid answered his knock; a moment later, Shiela herself, gowned for the afternoon, came to the door, and her maid retired. "Do you mind my stepping in a moment?" he asked. She glanced back into her own bedroom, closed the door, and led the way to the small living-room at the other end of the house. "Where's that maid of yours?" he asked. "Sewing in my dressing-room.
Perhaps it was with the hope of narrowing it that she yielded to his persuasions to go to night school and business college and to have herself gowned by a wonderful dressmaker who charged outrageous prices. She improved visibly from day to day, until Martin wondered if he was doing right, for he knew that all her compliance and endeavor was for his sake.
Here she paused and looked about, and then as though satisfied that she had at last reached the place she sought, she pushed bravely into the interior of the vile den. A score of half-drunken sailors and wharf-rats looked up at the unaccustomed sight of a richly gowned woman in their midst.
Then for the first time she saw who sat there a tall, handsome, beautifully gowned girl whom she had noticed several times during the evening, and to whom everybody seemed to defer. She had heard vaguely that this was Elizabeth's cousin, and wondered if it was for her that Elizabeth had given the party. "And can't you?" she asked, evincing instant interest.
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