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Updated: June 17, 2025
Yet these openings at times permitted glimpses of a picturesque past in the occasional view of a lace-edged pillow or silken counterpane, striped hangings, or dyed Indian rugs, the flitting of a flounced petticoat or flower-covered head, or the indolent leaning figure framed in a doorway of a man in wide velvet trousers and crimson-barred serape, whose brown face was partly hidden in a yellow nimbus of cigarette smoke.
The exact arrangement of the shape of this opening of the dress, from the throat down to about a hand's-breadth above the girdle, was very carefully attended to; the lace-edged folds of the muslin being three or four times drawn a little more forward so as to conceal, or a little back so as to show, a more liberal glimpse of the swelling bosom on either side, by the doubting Diva, as she stood before the glass.
He reached out and picked it up. It was a woman's handkerchief, a tiny square of lace-edged linen, of an inexpensive variety. But it was not the mere presence of the handkerchief that so interested him. It might readily have belonged to Miss Morton herself, and have been accidentally dropped from the window.
He had seated himself beside her again, clasping in his the hand with which she was fretting the lace-edged sheet. He felt her restless fingers surrender slowly, and her eyes turned to him in appeal. "But I care for what people say of you too! And you know it's horrid, but one must consider it if they say you're spending my money imprudently...." The blood rose to her neck and face.
But from excess of zeal, or some other mischance, his foot slipped, and he came down heavily, striking the corner of the trunk on the ground and loosening its hinges and fastenings. It was a cheap, common-looking affair, but the accident discovered in its yawning lid a quantity of white, lace-edged feminine apparel of an apparently superior quality.
However, I raised him to my lap with the sensation of lifting a dozen lace-edged handkerchiefs, and with very little more effort where he sat silently for a moment, with his sandals crossed pensively before him. "Wouldn't you like to go and play with those children?" I asked, pointing to a group of noisy sand levelers not far away. "No!" After a pause, "You wouldn't neither." "Why?" "Hediks."
By which, for truth's sake, it is to be hoped she meant the lace-edged handkerchief. In the exchange of civilities between the two women, the respective children in their charge were admonished to kiss each other, a feat which was accomplished by Jan's kissing the baby very tenderly, and with all his usual gravity.
I believe it would make even the Graf say something. But I won't do anything so unlike, as Frau Bornsted would say, what a junges Madchen generally does, but go to bed instead, into the prettiest bed I've slept in since I had a frilly cot in the nursery, all pink silk coverlet and lace-edged sheets.
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