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If any one comes, and you hear me on the ladder, begin to talk loudly, and I shall keep away. Could you be here to-morrow morning while the women are brushing their hair? 'Oh yes, replied Nelly, delighted. 'I could easily come. Little Yi likes to watch the hairdressing, and I don't. I am often here alone then. 'Very well, expect me to-morrow morning. I will go now. 'Stop, said Nelly.
I was not best pleased, I can tell you, but I kept a still tongue in my head; only, as time went on, I couldn't help seeing Jenny didn't seem to be at all the same to me, and Amelia seemed sad, too. I was in the hairdressing then, and serving my time, so it was only on Sundays or an evening that I could get out.
Margaret, feeling that there were limits, even to the subject of hairdressing, presently proposed a visit to Aunt Faith, and for once neither cousin made any objection.
Sin Sin Wa, bag in hand, trotted, soft of foot, across the lane and into the shadow of the dock-building. By the time that the C.I.D. man had decided to climb up and investigate the mysterious noise, Sin Sin Wa was on the other side of the canal and rapping gently upon the door of Sam Tuk's hairdressing establishment.
And she almost shut the door in Peggy's face. She lingered over it and over the manicuring and hairdressing and everything else that she could linger over, and dressed herself in the best of her gowns, a sophisticated taupe satin with slippers and stockings to match. She'd show Francis what he was perhaps going to be willing to part with! So when Mrs.
With the familiar sensation of deft fingers at work upon the business of hairdressing, a thousand recollections of countless nights and mornings countless preparations and wearinesses countless anticipations and disgusts, born with the placing of each hairpin, the coiling of the unfamiliar familiar weight of hair. "Now, madame! Is it not a picture?"
He did not like the fellow, but not on account of his insistence; it was not his insistence that had prejudiced him against him as much as the young man's elaboration of raiment, his hairdressing above all; he wore curls on either side that must have taken his barber a long while to prepare, and he exhaled scents.
Colwyn noticed that his hair had been recently wet, and plastered straight down so that it hung like a ridge over his forehead just as it had been the previous night. Colwyn wondered why the man wore his hair like that. Did he always affect that eccentric style of hairdressing, or had he adopted it to alter his personal appearance to disguise himself, or to conceal something?
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