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There are things you must know at once, because we have reached a dangerous hour." "The hat-pins first. The hat-pins!" Rouletabille rose lightly from the bed and, facing her, but watching something besides her, said: "It is necessary you should know that someone almost immediately is going to renew the attempt of the bouquet."
That Jeal person is a decided nuisance," said Miss Hugonin, as she stabbed her hat rather viciously with two hat-pins and then laid it aside on a table. Billy Woods was looking up at her forlornly. It hurt her to see the love and sorrow in his face.
And round he swung on his wooden steed, flinging one leg across her mount, and perilously tipping up and down, across the space, half lying back, laughing at her. He was perfectly happy; she was afraid her hat was on one side, but she was excited. He threw quoits on a table, and won for her two large, pale-blue hat-pins.
I preferred even those modern Pompeians who followed us so molestively to the train with bargains in postal-cards and coral. They are very alert, the modern Pompeians, to catch the note of national character, and I saw one of them pursuing an elderly American with a spread of hat-pins, primarily two francs each, and with the appeal, evidently studied from some fair American girl: "Buy it, Poppa!
To be sure, there were some embroidered collars and American flag-headed hat-pins, and flowered muslin wrappers which I could have had without ruining myself, if I had wanted them. But I didn't; and what I should like to know is, what does a girl do, if she's poor and has to live in New York? Mrs.
Madame, the point is there yet, filling up the little old hole and the piece of metal is very sharp and very bright." "Now I understand the examination of the hat-pins. Then it is so easy as that to get through a door with a hat-pin?" "Nothing easier, especially if the panel is of pine. Sometimes one happens to break the point of a pin in the first hole. Then of necessity one makes a second.
I should be grateful. Thank you. That hook fastens over here, and the band crosses to this side. The brooch is in my bag a gold band with some diamonds and the hat-pins, and a clean handkerchief. Can you manage? ... The clasp slides back." Claire opened the bag and gazed with admiration at a brown moire antique lining, and fittings of tortoiseshell, bearing raised monograms in gold.
They might mean never so well, but they would end by buying dirk hat-pins and claymore brooches for their wives, their daughters would all run after the kilted regiment and marry as many of the pipers as asked them, and before night they would all be shouting with the noble FitzEustace 'Where's the coward who would not dare To fight for such a land?
Hilda, struggling with her hat-pins, felt her dress brushed by various lean hands of the bazaar, and observed herself the central figure in yet another situation. When she was in a condition to see, she saw Arnold soothing the ponies; Amiruddin, before the possibility of vague police complication, having slipped away. Stephen had believed the gharry empty.
Wondering desperately what she could do to help against armed men she suddenly snatched one of the long hat-pins that she herself had adjusted in her own hat on Yasmini's head. Yasmini hugged her close and kissed her. "Better than sister! Better than friend!" she whispered.
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