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Both the Van Ness girls were making paper lamp-shades, and Rosamond was already well along on a picturesque Japanese kimono. She sewed up the breadths like a wind-mill, and whipped on the bordering rapidly, but with strong, firm stitches. She would easily have taken the prize in her department, but the girls had agreed among themselves that they would accept no prizes, even if they won them.
"I have never done that before. It it's very exciting almost more so than riding to hounds. I have often wondered how the fox felt. Now I know." She ignored the chair Seddon placed for her, turning to the boy called Toby with great resolution. "Those lamp-shades, Mr. Carey," she said. "I'm sorry I'm so late. You must have thought I was never coming.
She was a child in business matters, and Perry had left it to me to administer the affairs of his little estate. Rosalie had her small bungalow, Perry's insurance, and she turned her knowledge of painting to practical account. She made rather special things in lamp-shades and screens, and was well paid for them. I went, as I have said, once a week.
It's the crowds that go to the movies that have bright-coloured strings of American novels as the product runs on their shelves little shiny varnished shelves red carpets painted birds on the lamp-shades and callers in the evenings." There was a good silence.
She was lying under a lace coverlet lined with pink silk, lace, and embroidered cushions all around her, flowers, pink lamp-shades, silver flacons, everything most luxurious and modern. The contrast was striking. Madame Grevy was very civil, and talkative, said she was very tired. The big dinners and late hours she found very fatiguing.
I went placidly on now casting a passing glance on exhibitions of stale confectionery, now on a display of attractive millinery, again it was a "ten cent" establishment, offering such bargains as might puzzle the most economical house-wife, and finally my attention was caught by a succession of dazzling windows, with their bewildering panorama of Japanese figures and coloured bric-a-brac, windows crowded with fans and parasols, and variegated lamp-shades, oriental trays and glove-boxes, pieces of ware, from whose dirty green surface emptily peered the pale faces of native Japanese, there were whisk-holders, and wall-baskets, and all sorts of ornaments trimmed in Japanese fabrics, looking coaxingly out at the public.
The glaring yellow carpet, the bright purple lamp-shades, the gilt looking-glass over the fireplace, and, above all, dusty, drooping paper flowers in bright china vases ranged in a row by the window. Of course, it might be merely the lodgings. Lodgings always were like that but to live with them for months!
The players' heads dived into the light as they bent down for the stroke, springing back again smartly into the greenish gloom of broad lamp-shades; the clock ticked methodically; the unmoved Chinaman continuously repeated the score in a lifeless voice, like a big talking doll and Willems would win the game.
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