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It was tea-time, and the mellow light of the huge lace-covered lamp that stood on the table lit up the delicate china and hammered silver of the service at which the Duchess was presiding. Her white hands were moving daintily among the cups, and her full red lips were smiling at something that Dorian had whispered to her. Lord Henry was lying back in a silk-draped wicker chair looking at them.
The tables were by this time nearly covered, but all stood waiting, for there flowed in from the great doorway of the hall a gorgeous train first, a man bearing the double archiepiscopal cross of York, fashioned in silver, and thick with gems then, with lofty mitre enriched with pearls and jewels, and with flowing violet lace-covered robes came the sturdy square-faced ruddy prelate, who was then the chief influence in England, and after him two glittering ranks of priests in square caps and richly embroidered copes, all in accordant colours.
Instead of sugar and spices they contained the family wardrobe; folded neck-handkerchiefs in great variety; little embroidered jackets for the children; lace-covered caps; bodices, and even in the largest boxes petticoats. The ladies, and Starr also, were charmed with everything, especially the dark, secretive loft, as full of suspended fishing nets as Bluebeard's closet was of wives.
"To be beautiful, darling, you must be good and virtuous," said the fair odalisque, earnestly. Little Camilla arose in her bed; the white gown fell from her shoulders and exposed her soft childish form, her brown ringlets curled down her neck and lost themselves in her lace-covered dress.
Buried in the armchair, whose back supported her own, and half-bending her fair neck that reclined on the lace-covered head-rest, she looked at Lissac fixedly with an odd expression, the sidelong glance of a woman, that seems to be her keenest scrutiny. Through her half-closed lashes he seemed to feel that a malicious glance embraced him.
B. Lectures. Unreliable Description of Ober-Ammergau. Exaggerated Description of its Weather. Possibly Untruthful Account of how the Passion Play came to be Played. A Good Face. The Cultured Schoolboy and his Ignorant Relations. I am lying in bed, or, to speak more truthfully, I am sitting up on a green satin, lace-covered pillow, writing these notes.
With the large white hat she wore a low evening-dress, lace-covered, with loose sleeves to the elbow, and white gloves running up into the mystery of the sleeves. Round her neck was a tight string of pearls.
"O mon Dieu!" and a dainty lace-covered parasol fell over the edge, and, striking the platform where Claudius was lying, went straight to the bottom of the ruin, some twenty feet farther. "What a nuisance," said the thrilling voice from above, "I can never get it back now; and there are no gardeners or people about."
Your father was twenty-five." Sylvia looked about her at the cut-glass and silver utensils on the lace-covered dressing-table, at Aunt Victoria's pale lilac crêpe-de-chine négligée, at the neat, pretty young maid deft-handedly rubbing the perfumed cream into the other woman's well-preserved face, impassive as an idol's.
'Hard stuff that scratches when they hold you tight. Cecil cuddled his impudent round face luxuriously on the soft lace-covered shoulder of the visitor, and laughed up in her face. 'Aunts are very beady, said Sara, absent-mindedly, as she tried the effect of the glitter against her night-gown. 'Grandmothers are worse, amended Cecil. 'They're beady and bu-gly, too. 'What's bewgly?
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