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She was sitting on the ground with her lap full of baby kittens. He caught but a glimpse of her dull, pale face. The next morning Claude awoke with such a sense of physical well-being as he had not had for a long time. The sun was shining brightly on the white plaster walls and on the red tiles of the floor. Green jalousies, half-drawn, shaded the upper part of the two windows.
It was hardly more than a village that Tess could see through the jalousies of her bedroom windows. The room was at a corner, so that she had a wide view in two directions from either deep window-seat.
I left her the first night in that pale-yellow house with the two green jalousies facing the beach, where there was everything that she would need; but I knew that, like all the houses there now, it leaked profusely, and the next day I went down to the curving stair, cut through the rock at the back and south of the village, climbed, and half a mile beyond found that park and villa with gables, which I had noted from the sea.
Hamilton, asking him to call on the following day and to come alone. The two women did not meet again that night. But there is little privacy in the houses of St. Kitts and Nevis. Either the upper part of almost every room is built of ornamental lattice-work, or the walls are set with numerous jalousies, that can be closed when a draught is undesirable but conduct the slightest sound.
"'Fairy tale, by Jove!" said the Major, peering through the slats of the jalousies. "If he's the lawful heir, he'll.... Now old Chinn could no more pass that chick without fiddling with it than...." "His son!" said the Colonel, jumping up. "Well, I be blowed!" said the Major.
And our remedy as it was in a dream was at once effective sculpture and painting became as free and as strong an influence in our national life in Britain as literature is at this moment then came a frightful explosion! and I awoke, and the sun was blazing out of a blue sky through the open windows then it came again, a terrific bang! and the jalousies rattled and the whole of the Taj Hotel shook for the war ships were saluting The Prince of Wales, and he and his aides-de-camp and all the officials in his train had been up for hours, "doing their best to serve their country and their King," whilst we private people slumbered.
When at length I recovered my senses, I found myself in bed, in a small, light, airy room lighted by a couple of windows, the jalousies of which were so adjusted as to admit all the air possible, while at the same time the direct rays of the sun were excluded.
Here a face peeped out from the glazed sash of the jalousies of the balconies above a face that could never be said to be white, though it had only a tinge of black in its coaxing beauty. There a workman with long hair and shag trousers painted the prevailing two-storied house the prevailing colour, white and green.
The old priest picked up the missile and examined it curiously. 'It is fortunate, he said, 'that the stones are fixed in Toledo. In Xeres they are loose, and are always in the air. I wonder if I can hit a citizen. And he threw the stone back. 'Close the shutters, said the General. 'Let us avoid arousing ill- feeling. The priest drew the jalousies together, but did not quite shut them.
The windows of her boudoir were protected by green wooden jalousies and were considered a safeguard against thieves. 'This is awfully kind of you, Jane, said Toffy. 'I don't think there is really much the matter with me. He came inside the sitting-room and Peter made him lie down on the sofa.
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