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Updated: May 9, 2025
She dropped her lorgnon, and folding her aristocratic hands upon her bosom, she once more assumed the grand manner pertaining to Versailles, and Hector having swallowed an uncomfortable lump in his throat, threw open the huge, folding doors and announced in a stentorian voice: "Madame la Duchesse douairière d'Agen!"
She was looking at people through her magnificent lorgnon, and people undeniably were looking at her. There were many wonderful women in the Bois that day, but none so worthy of a stare as she. Corky pricked up his ears. It looked like a "feeler." "Perceptibly lower," he said. "And food is higher, they say." "Ah," said he, "but so are the buildings."
His self-imposed punishment, and his unexpected reward in the personality of his son, have proved a little too much for him, both he and 'Grandit' are at my Chateau," here she raised her lorgnon, and peered through it with an inquisitive air, "Tiens! There is the dear Varillo making himself agreeable as usual to all the ladies! When does the marriage come off between him and our gifted Sovrani?"
Mrs. Tresslyn, unmoved and apparently disinterested, ran idly through the pages of an illustrated periodical. Her furs lay across a chair in the corner of the room. They were of chinchilla and expressed a certain arrogance that could not be detached by space from the stately figure with the lorgnon. The year had done little toward bending that proud head.
Hilliard suddenly remembered to be cosmopolitan, and bringing her lorgnon into action, returned stare for stare as their driver threaded his dexterous way through the clattering, glittering maze of four o'clock Fifth Avenue.
She was exceedingly put out by Walden's abrupt pause in his reading of the 'Dearly beloved, while she and the other members of the Manor house-party rustled into their places, and when he recommenced the exordium she revenged herself by staring at him quizzically through a long- handled tortoiseshell-mounted lorgnon.
In the center of a group of expensive-looking people stood Mother, gorgeous in a gown like a herald's cloth-of-gold tabard. She was as magnificent as one of the larger chairs in a New York hotel lobby. Her hair was waved. She was coldly staring at Harris through a platinum lorgnon. Round her were the élite of Lipsittsville the set that wore dinner coats and drove cars.
"They are!" said she. "What a pity to have this wonderful old castle actually devastated by workmen! It is an outrage a crime. I should think the owner would turn over in his grave." "Unhappily, I am the owner, madam," said I, slyly working my foot back into an elusive slipper. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," she said, eyeing me coldly with a hitherto unexposed lorgnon.
Having let his stern gaze wander rapidly round the circle of mocking or stolid faces, from the Duchess's lorgnon to the journalist's eye-glass, Benedetto replied: "À l'instant, madame!" And he left the room.
The bright and shining star of Broadway, with a suite of rooms at the Plaza, a fascinating and much- courted husband, and a firm grasp on the shifting attention of the idle rich, was a person to be recognised even by the charitably inclined. And so Mrs. Force neglected to employ her lorgnon in scrutinising Miss Colgate, and made the most of an opportunity to release a long-suppressed effusiveness.
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