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Evelyn answered but in monosyllables; and Caroline, with a hand-screen before her face, preserved an unbroken silence.
In the air there was the faint sweet scent of cedar logs that burned on the old andirons. "So you came all the way home to see your poor useless mother," murmured Mrs. Gay, shielding her cheek from the firelight with a peacock hand-screen. "I wanted to see for myself how you stand it down here and, by Jove, it's worse even than I imagined!
A lady in black is seated on the right; she bends forward, her left arm leaning over the back of the sofa; she holds in her hand a Japanese hand-screen. The fine and graceful English profile is modelled without vulgar roundness, un beau modele a plat; and the black hair is heavy and loose, one lock slipping over the forehead.
She held a hand-screen betwixt her face and the fire, but the flush which touched its usual sallowness was not caused by heat. A wedding was a diversion of her exile which Lady Dorinda had never hoped for. There had been some mating in the fort below among soldiers and peasant women, to which she did not lower her thoughts.
Estcourt gave Arthur a beautifully-ornamented hand-screen to shade the heat from his face; as he sat with his feet on the fender, listening to his father's and aunt's conversation. "Well, you have a snug little place here," said Mr. Vivyan. "Yes, I suppose so," Mrs. Estcourt said; but she sighed as she spoke. "It seems like old times, eh, Daisy?"
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