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Updated: June 14, 2025
The smallest babies had not been left at home, but were there in all their primary scarletude, set off by the whitest of lace-frilled caps trimmed with the bluest of ribbons.
Diana hopped out of bed, and flung two lace-frilled arms round her room-mate, clinging to her with the tenacity of a young octopus. "Oh, Loveday! Ducky! Tell me! I shan't let you go till you promise. Please! please!" she entreated. "If you strangle me I can't tell anything. Get back into bed, Diana! I don't know whether it was really important, but it may have been.
And when at last, ready for bed, she stood in front of her long cheval glass, the folds of her blue dressing gown trailing away from her pretty, lace-frilled nightgown, she shook her forefinger warningly at the smiling reflection. "Now, mind you, Patricia, not a whimper out of you to-morrow! Not a shadow of a shade of disappointment on your fair young brow?
After the first day of cutting out patterns from the models and finely sewing tiny pieces of lawn together, Dowie saw that, before going to her bedroom for the night, Robin began to gather together all she had done and used in doing her work. She had ordered from London one of the pretty silk-lined lace-frilled baskets women are familiar with, and she neatly folded and laid her sewing in it.
The elements of evil belong to the dark race." "And were the people of this country once of mixed complexions?" "As you see in the portraits? Yes," was the reply. "And what became of the dark complexions?" "We eliminated them." I was too astonished to speak and stood gazing upon the handsome face of a young man in a plumed hat and lace-frilled doublet.
I'll make a beginning. I'll wash the dishes just to please you." He watched her go to the kitchen sink, and pour water from the steaming kettle into a dish pan, saw her turn up her lace-frilled cuffs, and begin with her long, slim, inefficient hands to take up the dirty plates.
One wonders whether Furetière himself was present on the 3rd of January; if so, what puttings of periwigs together there must have been in corners, and what taps of gold-headed canes on lace-frilled cuffs!
Miss Amelia arranged the procession into decorum, and then, with Sara at her side heading it, she led it away, leaving the Last Doll sitting upon a chair with the glories of her wardrobe scattered about her; dresses and coats hung upon chair backs, piles of lace-frilled petticoats lying upon their seats.
"Oh dear, no!" she said, looking up from the lace-frilled pockets of her silk apron, which appeared to my mind perhaps a little too smart, and almost of a vulgar tincture; and I think that she saw in my eyes that much, and was vexed with herself for not changing it "oh dear, no, Miss Castlewood! We who know and watch him should detect any difference of that nature at the moment of its occurrence.
The rich strength of the life radiating from her, the reality and glow of her were good for him and had the power of detaching him from work of which he was tired. She smiled back at him, and, coming forward took her place in a big armchair close to him, her lace-frilled cloak slipping from her shoulders with a soft rustling sound which seemed to convey her intention to stay.
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