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Susan sobbed with sorrow and fear, but her emotion was far from disabling her. She poured some of her scent into a water-glass and diluted it largely. She made her aunt take a hand-screen from the mantel-piece. She plunged her hand into the liquid and flung the drops sharply into Mr. Eden's face; and Mrs. Davies fanned him rapidly at the same time. These remedies had a speedy effect.
We are on classic ground, near that old and venerable Museum, the dark monastic pile which the taste of the age had spared then, and the quiet of the temple seems to hallow the precincts. Captain Roland is seated by the fire-place, and though there is no fire, he is shading his face with a hand-screen; my father and Mr.
We are on classic ground, near that old and venerable Museum, the dark monastic pile which the taste of the age had spared then, and the quiet of the temple seems to hallow the precincts. Captain Roland is seated by the fire-place, and though there is no fire, he is shading his face with a hand-screen; my father and Mr.
'Do you know, Mr Dombey, said her languishing mother, playing with a hand-screen, 'that occasionally my dearest Edith and myself actually almost differ 'Not quite, sometimes, Mama? said Edith. 'Oh never quite, my darling!
Bowen had listened with acquiescence and intelligence that might well have looked like sympathy, as she sat fingering the top of her hand-screen, with her eyelids fallen. She lifted them to say, "I have told you that I will not advise yon in any way. I cannot. I have no longer any wish in this matter. I must still remain in the place of Imogene's mother; but I will do only what you wish.
Sibylla leaned back on the cushions of her chair, toying with a fragile hand-screen of feathers; Lucy, sitting on the opposite side, had been reading; but she laid the book down when Lionel entered. "John Massingbird desired me to ask you, Sibylla, if he should send you the first plate of grapes they cut." "I'd rather have the first bag of walnuts they shake," answered Sibylla.
'The man has no sensitiveness, said Mrs Skewton, cruelly holding up the hand-screen so as to shut the Major out. 'No sympathy. And what do we live for but sympathy! What else is so extremely charming!
Straight-forward question! what is coming? thought Lady Cecilia: her face flushed, and taking up a hand-screen, she turned away, as if from the scorching fire; but it was not a scorching fire, as everybody, or at least as Miss Clarendon, could see.
But let them conceive one more historical contrast: the gigantic broken revelations of that Imperial and Papal city thrust abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand-screen sort; a girl whose ardent nature turned all her small allowance of knowledge into principles, fusing her actions into their mould, and whose quick emotions gave the most abstract things the quality of a pleasure or a pain; a girl who had lately become a wife, and from the enthusiastic acceptance of untried duty found herself plunged in tumultuous preoccupation with her personal lot.
Robed in dismal black, relieved only by the brilliant whiteness of her widow's cap reclining in a panther-like suppleness of attitude on a little green sofa she looked at the stranger who had intruded on her, with a moment's languid curiosity, then dropped her eyes again to the hand-screen which she held between her face and the fire. 'I don't know you, she said. 'What do you want with me? Mrs.
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