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Updated: June 13, 2025
At twelve she put on her hat with two jabs of the hat-pins, and hastened to the elevator, exulting in freedom. The elevator was crowded with girls in new white frocks, voluble about their afternoon's plans. One of them carried a wicker suit-case. She was, she announced, starting on her two weeks' vacation; there would be some boys, and she was going to have "a peach of a time."
Junior contracted chicken-pox during this time, and the family was quarantined on New Year's Eve. Bert and his wife celebrated the occasion with a quart of oysters, eaten with hat-pins from a quart measure. The invalid slumbered in the same room, behind a screen. He was having a very light attack, and Nancy, who had been hanging over him all day, was reassured to-night, and in wild spirits.
"We've got a surprise for you, Norn, but we won't tell till we've had lunch; will we, Ju?" "Not till the very last crumb is done for," declared Judith, emphatically, putting down her parcels on the dressing-room couch. "You may not like it very much, Elinor " "Nonsense! Don't put such ideas in her head," cried Patricia stabbing her hat-pins into her hat to secure it on the hanger.
"Kaltsof came for a moment, entered the garden and went away again without seeing us, without saying even a word to the general." "Ah," said Natacha. With apparent indifference, she raised her arms and drew out her hat-pins. Rouletabille watched the pin without a word. The young girl hardly seemed aware of their presence.
She had probably never visited a professional coiffeur in her life. Her form was straitly confined in an atrocious dress of linsey-woolsey, and she wore an apron that was neither white nor black. Her boots were commodious. After her meal she was putting a hat-pin to a purpose which hat-pins do not usually serve.
As it happened, the butler had left two days before, and had taken with him all the knives and forks, and all the money he could find, and Nancy Lee's gold watch and two hat-pins, and my silver hair-brush, and a bottle of brandy, and a pie," she enumerated with a conscientious regard for details; "and Mrs. Trent that's the principal had advertised for a new butler."
And now, gentle people, observe the leader of the orchestra fumbling with his music. There is a faint stir among the musicians under the footlights. And you, too, are getting restless; you are feeling for your hat instinctively, and you for your hat-pins, and you for your rubbers, while Neal Ward stands there waiting, and the great clock ticks in the long silence.
She has one on her head, or two, perhaps; I can't find them." "Take these back where you found them," said the reporter, after glancing at them. Matrena returned immediately, not understanding what he was doing. "And now, your hat-pins. Yes, your hat-pins."
In her transport she tried to take him in her trembling arms, but he waved her back. She caught her breath and resumed: "Did the examination of all the hat-pins tell you anything?" "Yes. The fifth hat-pin of Mademoiselle Natacha's, the one in the toque out in the veranda, has the tip newly broken off." "O misery!" cried Matrena, crumpling in her chair. Rouletabille raised her.
They gathered about Kedzie in an ivory cluster and murmured their sympathy Miss Silsby not being within ear-shot. Kedzie blubbered bitterly as she glided into her everyday things, hooking her corsets askew, drawing her stockings up loosely, and lacing her boots all wrong. She was still jolted with sobs as she pushed the hat-pins home in her traveling-hat. She kissed the other girls good-by.
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