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Updated: May 13, 2025
They beheld Miss Genevieve Pringle perched upon the top of the cabin, whither she had mounted by means of a short ladder. This lady, perhaps not quite aware of the possibly sanguinary character of the spectacle she was about to witness, had, nevertheless, sensed the fact that a spectacle was toward. Miss Pringle had with her a handsome lorgnette.
Pamela shook her head. "I am going to sit under that tree with Mr. Lutchester and Mr. Downing," she declared. "Tea doesn't attract me in the least, and that tree does." Mrs. Hastings accepted defeat with a somewhat cynical gracefulness. She closed her lorgnette with a little snap. "You leave us all desolated, my dear Pamela," she said.
I think it was a real aesthetic satisfaction; I know they would talk of it afterward for hours, with sighing comparisons of the "form" of the young men of Elgin, which they called beside Hesketh's quite outre. It was a favourite word with Mrs Milburn outre. She used it like a lorgnette, and felt her familiarity with it a differentiating mark.
Her plumed hat was pushed rakishly askew, but little she cared. Her eyelids had fallen, too. Mrs. Evringham and Eloise, returning late from their luncheon, came upon the little sleeping figure as they walked around the long piazza. "There she is!" exclaimed Mrs. Evringham softly, putting up her lorgnette. "Behold your rival!" Eloise regarded the sleeper without curiosity.
Coming completely into view at last, when stepping from the path on to the level carriage drive, a gold chain she wore, from which dangled a little bunch of trinkets and a long-handled lorgnette, glinted, catching the light. Damaris gave an exclamation of sudden and rapturous recognition. So far she had had eyes for the lady only; but now she took a rapid scrutiny of the latter's attendants.
"Torchy?" says the wide old girl, inspectin' me doubtful through her lorgnette. "Why, Verona, I don't remember " "Oh, yes, you do, Aunty," says Miss Vee. "Anyway, I've told you about him, and it's so jolly to have some one to meet us. Thank you, Torchy. Now let's see, Marjorie, how do we divide up? Aunty goes to her hotel and and where do you go, Count?"
Turning to look down through her jeweled lorgnette and running her eyes over the crowd, Antonia now saw him. Recognition lighted her face to unexpected liveliness. She fluttered her hand to him demonstratively. After bowing and smiling, he stood quietly, with face upturned, receiving her showered greetings. He had a certain knowledge of Antonia.
Colour suffused the girl's face and she arose abruptly from the table. "At least," she said haughtily, "you and Wolf River are thoroughly in accord on that point." As the man watched her disappear through the doorway he became aware that the fat woman who had sought refuge under the coach was staring at him through her lorgnette from her seat across the aisle.
Hume gravely. "There is some enlargement taking place in its internal organs, due to heat expansion, I judge." "I guess that animal, whatever it is, feels something like an early Christian martyr," put in Percy. "What is the creature?" inquired Miss Campbell, raising her tortoise shell lorgnette in order the better to see the writhing form over the flames.
The Lorgnette, published by Stringer and Townsend, continues to make its appearance once a fortnight, and well sustains the reputation it has acquired, as a brilliant, searching, and good-humored satirical commentary on the many-colored phantasmagoria of the town.
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