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Faith, red and confused, made a dive for him, and caught off the bonnet, but with a shrill cry he clung to the handglass, and ran up to the top of a cabinet, where he calmly wound the long ribbon around his swart body, and, after scolding the assembled company for a moment or so, proceeded to admire himself in the glass, with all the vanity of a Broadway belle.
"To make the cheeks plump up and not sag oh, yours look so pink!" Polly danced over to the dresser and back. The handglass showed a face of surprise. The thin, white cheeks had taken on a soft rose tint and yes, an extra fullness! "Queer!" Miss Sterling ejaculated. "I wouldn't have believed it!" "Oh, let's try it again! Then you get up and go to walk with me won't you?" "I can't, Polly!
You do not like him?" "I could never love him," said the Indian girl with confidence. "He is too silly. Even when we are about to engage in one of the most thrilling scenes, he looks first in the handglass to see if his hair is parted right." Ruth could not fail to be amused.
As soon as he had gone out of the room she wished that she had told him to give her time to dress and have her room put in order, before he sent the child up; but she could only make the best of herself in bed with a cap and a breakfast jacket, arranged with the help of a handglass.
As each successive treasure was produced, Ellen Harriott's eyes grew rounder with astonishment; and when, out of a travelling bag, there appeared a complete dressing-table outfit of silverware silver-backed hair-brushes, silver manicure set, silver handglass, and so forth she drew a long breath of wonder and admiration.
Poor little Andy, who had been clinging by tail and claws to his perch, not even dropping the handglass, seemed to think help had come with the man he had grown very fond of by this, so he quickly scrambled down and fled to the big pocket of Captain Hosmer's reefer, a movement almost unnoted by the man in his preoccupation.
I was indignant. I demanded the handglass, gave one look at myself, and I was inclined to let it slide off the bed to the floor,
After a while the excess of crying brought its cessation. She drank some water, and then taking up a broken handglass she looked at herself, saying: 'I am a sight! and proceeded to wind up her hair. 'You 'ave been good ter me, Tom, she repeated, her voice still broken with sobs; and as he sat down beside her she took his hand. 'Na, I ain't, he answered; 'it's only wot anybody 'ud 'ave done.
"You see," said Gladys, "she was in there trying on hats all by herself because the saleswomen were busy with other people. She had put on a mink hat and was roaming around looking for a handglass to see how it looked from the back, when she suddenly got an idea for a story she was to write for that month's club meeting.
"Let me look at myself in the glass, Nancy," she said, and Nancy gave her the handglass which had been cracked the morning after the Melliah. She pushed it away peevishly. "What's the use of a thing like that?" she said. Pete haunted the house day and night. There was no bed for him there, and he was supposed to go home to sleep.
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