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"Nor for anything else?" he asked again. Her voice was faint, her head sank, her body trembled, but she forced the one word, "No." "Mademoiselle has sent for me?" Bienville kissed the hand that Miss Grimston, without rising from her comfortable chair before the fire, lifted toward him. The hand-screen with which she shielded her face protected her not only from the blaze, but from his scrutiny.
Evelyn answered but in monosyllables; and Caroline, with a hand-screen before her face, preserved an unbroken silence.
He flushed at the retort, but steadied himself and rejoined: "The essential point to me is, of course, that you should be doing what's really best for you." She sat silent, with lowered lashes. At length she stretched out her arm and took up from the table a little threadbare Chinese hand-screen.
"You are quite enough," he said; "quite enough for me." She turned away, making a transparent little pretence of requiring a hand-screen from the mantelpiece, and, having got it, she too sat down, and fell to examining a wretched little daub of a picture upon it most minutely. "This is very badly done," she observed, irrelevantly.
My Lady, slowly using her little hand-screen as a fan, asks him again what he supposes that his taste for likenesses has to do with her. "Your ladyship," replies Mr. Guppy, again referring to his paper, "I am coming to that. Dash these notes! Oh! 'Mrs. Chadband. Yes." Mr. Guppy draws his chair a little forward and seats himself again.
Not even then could I lose altogether the external view of myself. We were sitting by the fire one evening in the twilight; she was playing with a hand-screen, but suffering the flames to paint her face and throw into relief the sensitive merry lips and the eyes so full of varied meanings.
He holds up his hands for the hand-screen that the mother waves about him. The strip of background about the yellow cane-work is grey-green; there is a vase of dried ferns and grasses on the left, and the whole picture is filled and penetrated with the affection and charm of English home-life, and without being disfigured with any touch of vulgar or commonplace sentimentality.
"You may have your faults, Cissy," said Atherley, "but I will say this for you for smoothing people down when they have been rubbed the wrong way, you never had your equal." He lay back in a comfortable chair looking at his cousin, who, sitting on a low seat opposite the drawing-room fire, shaded her eyes from the glare with a little hand-screen. "Mrs.
"But when I tell you that I love you," he said quietly, with his voice well in control. "I did not know that the word was in your vocabulary you, a diplomat." "And a man you put the word there Etta." The hand-screen was raised for a moment in objection presumably to the Christian name of which he had made use. He waited; passivity was one of his strong points. It had frightened men before this.
Then she rose, and, having taken a hand-screen from the chimney-piece, was fanning herself with it, when the door opened, and a servant asked if she were at home to Mr. Helmer. She hesitated a moment: what an unearthly hour for a caller! "Show him up," she answered: anything was better than her own company. Tom Helmer entered much the same a little paler and thinner.
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