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Here was a dark saying, over which the Arethusa pondered as he drank his grenadine; but when he rose and asked what was to pay, the light came upon him in a flash. "O, pour vous," replied the landlady, "a halfpenny!" Pour vous? By heaven, she took him for a beggar! He paid his halfpenny, feeling that it were ungracious to correct her.
Tommy and Nick stopped to speak to a columbine who hovered between the pavement and the threshold of the house. "I don't know whether it's the grenadine or the lobster, or whether it's Paris," said Miss Ingate confidentially in the interval; "but I can scarcely tell whether I'm standing on my head or my heels."
'I say, my dear, that woman that woman! 'That woman? Mrs. Capadose repeated; and Lyon too wondered what woman he meant. 'Don't you remember when we came out, she was at the door or a little way from it? I spoke to you of her I told you about her. Geraldine Grenadine the one who burst in that day, he explained to Lyon. 'We saw her hanging about I called Everina's attention to her.
"Open the little trunk, Lydia, and take out my pearl-colored grenadine; I cannot wear a heavy silk to-night; and find my Valenciennes fichu and my small diamonds, I don't suppose there is any one in particular here, unless it is Lady Oakley, and she, I presume has the room opposite this. She did, the last time we were here. John, we are really very comfortable. Mrs.
She was dressed in mouse-coloured grenadine, and was seated in a small chamber opening out of Mrs. Merillia's bedroom, engaged in what she called "plain tatting." "Fancy," said the Prophet, entering and closing the door carefully, "you know me well." "From the bottle, sir," she answered, darting the bone implements in and out. "Have you ever thought has it ever occurred to you "
She leaned down into the recesses of the black grenadine, withdrawing from one of the pockets a pair of silver-rimmed spectacles, adjusting them with some difficulty to the nodding head. "Shila's little mamma! Shila's mamma!" "Aylorff, the littlest wreath for Aylorff Meine Kräntze " "Yes, yes." "Mein Mann. Mein Sühn." "Ssh-h-h, dearie!" "Aylorff der klenste Kranz far ihm!"
I had chosen the least becoming garment in my wardrobe, a black grenadine, very simply made, which belonged to my schoolgirl days. It was high to the neck and had elbow sleeves, and the cut was old-fashioned. I wished to look my worst at Damerstown, although I was forced to go there by my grandfather's will.
Haas is getting us the papers. Nice evening papers for Shila's mama." She leaned down into the recesses of the black grenadine, withdrawing from one of the pockets a pair of silver-rimmed spectacles, adjusting them with some difficulty to the nodding head. "Shila's little mama! Shila's mama!" "Aylorff, the littlest wreath for Aylorff Meine Kräntze " "Yes, yes." "Mem Mann. Mein Sühn."
Her dress was of black grenadine embroidered with silver. She wore half mourning as a sort of announcement that she was a widow, in hopes that this might put a stop to any wicked gossip which should assert that Count Strahlberg was still living, having got a divorce and been very glad to get it.
"I wish you'd go, even if you don't feel like it just to please me, Virginia," he urged, and after a short struggle she yielded to his altered tone, and got down her hat from the shelf of the wardrobe. A little later, as the dog-cart rolled out of Dinwiddie into the country road, she looked through her black grenadine veil on a world which appeared to have lost its brightness.
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