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Updated: June 9, 2025
She was in her customary rusty, fringed black, jingling with chains, mummified in expression, and with the usual large showing of dusty diamonds. She surveyed Hayden through her lorgnon with both surprise and disapproval, and then acknowledging his bow with a curt nod, turned to Ydo. But a change had come over Mademoiselle Mariposa.
"Au coeur vaillant rien d'impossible!" she said, with an envoi of her lorgnon, and a smile that should have intoxicated him a smile that might have rewarded a Richepanse for a Hohenlinden. "Superbly ridden! I absolutely trembled for you as you lifted the King to that last leap. It was terrible!"
She flicked a lapful of crumbs on to the floor, and pranced away with her light, dancing step. Geoffrey watched her from the doorway, saw her squeeze herself into the corner of the lounge on which the Duchess was seated, and gaze into her face with the broadest of broad beaming smiles, while the great lady, in her turn, put up a lorgnon and stared back in amazed curiosity.
Leonard, make your mind easy; the bill will be paid on Monday! Miss Rowly said quietly: 'I have to be in London on Monday afternoon; I can pay it for you. This was a shock to Leonard; he said impulsively: 'Oh, I say! Can't I . . . His words faded away as the old lady again raised her lorgnon and gazed at him calmly.
"Pardon, sir," interrupted Montfanon, whose brows contracted still more at the mention of the celebrated field-marshal, and, stopping by a gesture the reader, who, in his surprise, dropped his lorgnon upon the table on which his elbow rested.
Everyone in the congregation stared and seemed stricken with sudden wonderment. Such singing they had never heard before. Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay put up her lorgnon. "It's Maryllia Vancourt's creature," she whispered "The ugly child she picked up in Paris. I suppose it really IS a voice?"
So if you and the Major want to come to Ruth's tea Ruth's, remember; not yours or the Major's, or mine you will either have to pass the cake or take the gentlemen's hats. Do you hear?" We heard, and we heard her laugh as she spoke, raising her gold lorgnon to her eyes and gazing at us with that half-quizzical look which so often comes over her face.
As they came up Percival felt himself raked by a broadside from the maternal lorgnon that left him all but disabled. The father glowered at him and asked questions in the high key we are apt to adopt in addressing foreigners, in the instinctive fallacy that any language can be understood by any one if it be spoken loudly enough.
"I have left word at the hotel for her to come up if by any chance she happens to arrive on the evening train." "Haven't you heard from her, Mr. Blithers?" inquired the austere lady, regarding the top of his head with an illy-directed lorgnon. They were entering the long, low dining-room. Mr. Blithers resented the scrutiny: It was lofty and yet stooping.
Nailor suddenly changed the conversation to Art. She was looking at a painting on the wall behind Keith, and after inspecting it a moment through her lorgnon, turned toward the head of the table. "Where did you get that picture, Mrs. Wickersham? Have I ever seen it before?" The hostess's gaze followed hers. "That? Oh, we have had it ever so long. It is a portrait of an ancestor of mine.
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