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What he saw was a composite woman with flushed cheeks and soliciting eyes, becomingly gowned and hatted to the masculine judgment. On the walls, heavily frescoed in the German style, he read, in Gothic letters: "Wer liebt nicht Wein, Weib, and Gesang, Er bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang." The waiter brought the sandwiches and beer, yet he did not eat.
These seats, and the windows in the stories above them, were densely packed with people, mostly young girls dressed in a thousand enchanting shades and colours, and bonneted and hatted to the last effect of fashion.
A bore is a biped, but not always unplumed. There be of both kinds; the female frequently plumed, the male-military plumed, helmed, or crested, and whisker-faced, hairy, Dandy bore, ditto, ditto, ditto. There are bores unplumed, capped, or hatted, curled or uncurled, bearded and beardless.
But Marcelle was waiting there, hatted, and gloved. "Have you fixed things?" she whispered breathlessly. "We have," said Curtis. "Goodness me! But I guessed it. Nobody can resist her, can they?" "I didn't try," said Curtis, wriggling into the coat sideways. "Poor dear. She has had a time. What a piece of luck I met her the day she landed."
She was gowned and furred and hatted in a manner which caused the captain to make hasty mental estimate as to cost, but she extended a plump hand, buttoned in a very tight glove, and murmured her gratification. "I'm so glad you are to accompany us, Captain Warren," she gushed. "It is a charming winter morning, isn't it?"
He exalted his voice amid the clatter, shouting and roaring in a manner which changed Mysie's hysterical terrors of the thunder into fears that her old fellow-servant was gone distracted. "He has dung down a' the bits o' pigs, too the only thing we had left to haud a soup milk and he has spilt the hatted hit that was for the Master's dinner.
The latter Sara Lee's experience on the steamer enabled her to place; buyers mostly, and Americans, on their way to Paris, blockade or no blockade, because the American woman must be well and smartly gowned and hatted. A man with a mourning band on his sleeve carried a wailing child. The officers lighted cigarettes.
It was a long gallery; at the further end Miss Desborough stood cloaked, veiled, and coquettishly hatted. She was looking very beautiful and animated. "I want you to please do me a great favor," she said, with an adorable smile, "as your own countrywoman, you know for the sake of Fourth of July and Pumpkin Pie and the Old Flag! I don't want to go to this circus to-day.
The motor was to be in readiness simultaneously, and then the lady could choose between the two at the last moment. Thus matters stood when my mistress appeared at the front door, hatted and coated. There was the big blue car; there was the swift green river, and on the river a boat with two respectful and not unpicturesque boatmen.
I leaned wondering whether the thought of re-entering that house were the more hateful because I should have to face my fellow-guests or because I should probably have to face Braxton. A church bell began ringing somewhere. And anon I was aware of another sound a twitter of voices. A consignment of hatted and parasoled ladies was coming fast adown the avenue.
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