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Piff, what a smell of burning! It's the hair-thing hangin' on the lookin'-glass." Male Society began to practise the shedding of its final g's, you will remember, about the time that Female Society took to wearing transformation coiffures. Lady Hannah, her active little figure rustling in the thinnest of silk drapery, jumped nimbly out of bed, and rushed to save her property.
"Don't you be shocked at her," Calliope warned me, as we closed Mis' Holcomb's gate behind us; "she's dreadful diff'r'nt an' bitter since Abigail was married last month. She's got hold o' some kind of a Persian book, in a decorated cover, from the City; an' now she says your soul is like when you look in a lookin'-glass that there ain't really nothin' there.
Molly and Josiah wuz interested in lookin' at a display a little ways off, and I'd sot down for a spell restin' my tired head on my hand, and closed my eyes, for they too wuz so weary I felt I should almost be ashamed to face them two gray orbs in the lookin'-glass, for I knowed I had worked 'em too hard, and no knowin' when they would git any rest, for it seemed as though the more we see the more there wuz to see.
You can put your shavin'-things on the chair below the lookin'-glass 'gainst the wall, pointing to a fragment of glass nailed against the stencilled wall, all of which Sponge stood eyeing with a mingled air of resignation and contempt; but when Facey pointed to: 'The chest, contrived a double debt to pay A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day'
"Yo' put yo' min' on yo' roas' lamb, honey," Calvin suggested. "How-cum you got late?" "That chile kep' me fixin' that pink dress. She ain' never cyard what she wo'. And now she stan' in front o' dat lookin'-glass an' fuss an' fiddle.
She made me stand up and shut my eyes, and she put it on my shoulders and made me look in the lookin'-glass, and then she says, 'I brought you a new quilt pattern, too, grandma, and I want you to piece one quilt by it and leave it to me when you die. And then she told me about goin' to a town over yonder they call Florence, and how she went into a big church that was built hundreds o' years before I was born.
When all this had been accomplished the trapper removed his fur cap, scratched his grizzled head, and appealed to Neale and King. "I reckon you can fetch over some comfortable-like necessaries fixin's fer a girl," he suggested. Red King laughed in his cool, easy, droll way. "Shore, we'll rustle fer a lookin'-glass, an' hair-brush, an' such as girls hev to hev. Our camp is full of them things."
Such a whack o' dome as he'd a-bought, and a weather-glass wherein the man comes forth as the woman goes innards, an' a dresser, painted a bright liver colour, engaging to the eye." "I niver seed a more matterimonial outfit, as you might say," put in Uncle Issy. "An' a warmin'-pan, an' likewise a lookin'-glass of a high pattern."
"How I saw and heard, my son Leather, is a private affair of my own, but it was no lie." Leather looked incredulous. "Then you said," he continued, "that you didn't see the man that carried me away." "No more I did, boy. I never saw him!" "What! not even in a looking-glass?" "Not even in a lookin'-glass," returned Hunky.
"Wat's de matter on your face?" said Poleon. "You been fightin'?" "I ain't shaved in a long time, and this here excitement has kind of shattered my nerves. I didn't have no lookin'-glass, neither, in my shack, so I had to use a lard-can cover. Does it look bad?" "Not to my way of thinkin'," said Gale, allaying "No Creek's" anxiety. "It's more desp'rate than bad, but it sort of adds expression."
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