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He saw her send the chauffeur away, and cache her lorgnette, and roll up her sleeves, and simply wade into an orgy of cribbage, with pleasing light refreshments of cider and cakes waiting by the fireplace. Then he saw Mrs. Carter sending all her acquaintances to "The T Room," and the establishment so prosperous that Miss Mitchin would come around and beg the Applebys to enter into partnership.
She's a whole team and the little dog under the wagon, ain't she? Deuced pretty woman! no make-up there, eh?" "She certainly is a fine woman," said Brimmer gravely, borrowing his companion's lorgnette. "By the way, Markham, do you usually keep an opera-glass in your office in case of an emergency like this?"
They had the air of not knowing what might happen to them, but the adventurous young Boston matron in charge of the girls kept on a bold front behind her lorgnette, and swept the strange company she found herself in with an unshrinking eye as she led her band among the promenaders, and past the couples seated along the walls.
'Really, said the rector's wife, fixing her lorgnette on the opposite box, 'that person with the leopard's skin looks absolutely like a cannibal. 'I'm just swimming in tears, was the comment of Lady Erskin's daughter. Elise said nothing; nor did she hear them speak. Her heart was fluttering wildly, and her hands were clasped tightly together.
"My dear good man," she said; "I give my niece away; having come north at considerable inconvenience for that express purpose. Now, go on. What do we do next?" Dr. Rob broke into an uncontrollable chuckle. The duchess lifted her lorgnette, and surveyed him. Margery searched her prayer-book in vain for the duchess's response. It did not appear to be there.
She enjoyed the singing; thought the vast listening crowd, marvellous; was moved to tears by the eloquence of the preacher, and was leaving the hall more touched than she had been for years, and fully intending to return, bringing others with her, when a smug person, hovering about the entrance, accosted her with: 'Excuse me madam; are you a Christian? The duchess raised her lorgnette in blank amazement, and looked him tip and down.
We are given to the nickname these days to the abbreviation in general." They were walking down a corridor, and Miss Thangue was peering through her lorgnette at the cards on the doors. "I know you are on this side. I wrote your name myself. But exactly where ah, here it is." She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture.
The dinner was a complete success; so complete that the orchestra was concluding the overture when they arrived at the theater. A little flurry ran through the body of the house when Annabel appeared. Mrs. Feversham in the opposite box raised her lorgnette. "I wonder who they are," she said.
St. Cleve commented, putting up her lorgnette as she stood at the window with Rose, watching their disappearing figures, "but so far as money is concerned, a hopeless detrimental. Don't let your pretty sister get interested in him. He hasn't a cent except what he makes he's an architect." "Edith is to be depended upon," Rose said, enigmatically.
Yes, I suppose by some she would be considered pretty," Lady Bracondale continued, when the lorgnette was fixed to her focus. "What do you think, dear?" "Pretty!" exclaimed Miss Winmarleigh. "Oh no! Much too white, and, oh er foreign-looking. We must find out who she is." The matter was not difficult.
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