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Updated: May 2, 2025
Nor could I, from the gold hair-pegs in her hair to the tip of her slim, pompadour shoes peeping from the lace of her petticoat, which she lifted a trifle to show her silken, flowered hose. And "There!" she cried, "I gowned myself, and I wear no paint. I wish you would tell them as much when they laugh at me."
They should have shifts, and hair-pegs, and a scarf, and fan, and stays, and scent, and hankers, and a small laced hat, not gilded; cloak, foot-mantle, sun-mask, and a chip hat to tie beneath the chin, and one such as they call after the pretty Mistress Gunning.
"Nothing doing, little girl," he said with a sombre smile. She looked at him, slowly divesting herself of her light leather-trimmed coat. "I missed him," said Mortimer. She flung the coat over a chair, stood a moment, her fingers busy with her hair-pegs, then sat down on the couch, taking Tinto into her lap. She was very pretty, dark, slim, marvellously graceful in her every movement.
"You dear and generous lad!... And are there hair-pegs? Heaven knows if my clipped poll will hold them. Anyway, I can powder and patch, and oh, Euan! Is there lip-red and curd-lily lotion for the skin? Not that I shall love you any less if there be none " "I bespoke of Mr.
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