Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 22, 2025
And I hope," added Miss Jessamine, desperate with the results of experience "that the General knows that Boys will be Boys." What mischief could be foreseen, Jackanapes promised to guard against. The General arrived, and for the first day all went well, except that Jackanapes' hair was as wild as usual, for the hair-dresser had no bear's-grease left.
She would not trouble herself because she wore an old worked white frock of her mother's, taken up by tucks to suit her, and yellowed by frequent washing and long keeping. She would not fret because she could not spend money upon a hair-dresser. She must dress her own hair which was scanty, like every other outward adornment of hers.
But she was so impetuous, that her ladies of honor were never quite secure that some little annoyance would not ruffle the serenity of her temper. The young girl whose duty it was to read aloud to the empress and dress her hair, used to declare that she would sooner wade through three hours' worth of Latin dispatches from Hungary, than spend one half hour as imperial hair-dresser.
A small German with a very red nose, most incoherent in his apparel he might have been a Baron or again a hair-dresser already occupied one of the seats in the intérieur, so after our elders had been safely deposited beside him the banquette and the coupé were left, as Mrs. Portheris said, to the adventurous young people. Dicky and I had conspired, for the sustained effect on Mrs.
It was of a woman, a long-drawn, emaciated creature, extraordinarily artificial in her grace and in the pose and expression of her ugly, charming form and features. She had been aided by hair-dresser and costumer and by her own wit, aided into something that made of her an arresting and compelling picture. "What do you think of her, Joan?" smiled Prosper Gael.
What enrages me is that Madame d'Orleans and the Princess would still make one believe that the Duc and Duchesse du Maine are totally innocent, although proofs of their guilt are daily appearing. The Duchess came to me to beg I would procure an order for her daughter's people, that is, her dames d'honneur, her femmes de chambre, and her hair-dresser, to be sent to her.
I have never seen her since, and I trust that she is dead. She was her late Highness's hair-dresser." "And the Princess Hildegarde?" "She is a woman for whom I would gladly lay down my life." "Yes, yes!" I said impatiently. "Who made her the woman she is? Who taught her to shoot and fence?" "It was I." "You?" "Yes. From childhood she has been under my care. Her mother did so desire.
Each time the resemblance became more close, but each time some persistent inner conviction repeated, "No; the Sign is not for him!" It was disturbing, also, to find that The Rat was all at once as restless as he had previously been silent and preoccupied. He moved in his chair, to the great discomfort of the old hair-dresser. He kept turning his head to talk.
What enrages me is that Madame d'Orleans and the Princess would still make one believe that the Duc and Duchesse du Maine are totally innocent, although proofs of their guilt are daily appearing. The Duchess came to me to beg I would procure an order for her daughter's people, that is, her dames d'honneur, her femmes de chambre, and her hair-dresser, to be sent to her.
The furniture is covered with dresses and flowers tried on and laid aside. The hair-dresser is there, an artist par excellence, a sovereign authority, at once nobody and everything. You hear the other domestics going and coming: orders are given and recalled, errands are well or ill performed. The disorder is at its height. This chamber is a studio from whence to issue a parlor Venus.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking