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"His Excellency the Ambassador of the United States to see the American ladies!" It was, indeed, Mr. White and Mrs. White, and Lieutenant Allen, the Military Attaché! "Oh, those blessed angels!" I cried, buckling my belt and dashing for the wash-stand, thereby knocking the comb and hand-glass from the grasp of my companion.
Roberts had shown her how to wear set on the yellow head, Sallie said not a word, but went to the packing-box in the corner which served as a treasure cupboard, and drew forth the one possession about which she had been utterly silent a little hand-glass which Mark had brought her one winter evening just before he was hurt.
Carrie has several times recently called attention to the thinness of my hair at the top of my head, and recommended me to get it seen to. I was this morning trying to look at it by the aid of a small hand-glass, when somehow my elbow caught against the edge of the chest of drawers and knocked the glass out of my hand and smashed it.
She will feel for me and my grief. Suppose we make it two hundred and fifty. Come, Becky, the pearls are yours for two hundred and fifty." "I wont." "Am I deceived? No, no, it can't be true. I will not believe " "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you two hundred to get rid of you." Mr. Ricketty picked up a little hand-glass that lay upon the counter and placed it before her face.
This gap represents the lost period of time between the peopling of the earth and the beginning of history. The South panel of the main structure has as its central figure Vanity with her hand-glass. Whether the artist intended it as a pessimistic commentary on all human life, or not, his series of episodes on earth begins and ends with the figure of Vanity.
For instance, Elise Rouquet, who was also near Marie, on the other side of the latter's bed, opened her basket to take a clean fichu out of it, and seemed sorely annoyed at having no hand-glass with her.
The seconds, who were well disposed to both parties, alone knew how much or how little powder there was in the pistols, and they were discreet men, who kept the secret. The door leading to the antechamber was wide open, and the Baroness went on deliberately, looking about through her hand-glass, in the half light, for the shutters were not all open.
She whisked out a small hand-glass and touched up her hair a bit. Then she washed her hands and pinned some roses on her dress, smiled a smile I can never forget in my life, and opened the kitchen door and went out. "'She's going to give a supper! whispered Mr. Perkins. "'It looks like it, said I. 'And a mighty fine one at that.
An illustrated book of the fashions, in which women were represented exhibiting their finery by means of the free use of their limbs, lay on the bed, from which she had not moved for years without being lifted by her nurse. A hand-glass was placed with the book so that she could reach it easily.
"Clear out and see if you can hurry Mrs. Penticost over breakfast." Georgie went, and Judith slipped out of bed, and going to the window, examined her face in the clear morning light, lifting her hand-glass at many angles. After her bath she took up the glass again and began with infinite care to rub in first rouge and then powder.
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