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Updated: May 13, 2025
Abstractedly he drank his coffee, and then, ignoring the tray piled high with its accumulation of mail which his valet had placed on the table, he drew his lounging-robe about him and picked up the telephone. When his number was connected a respectful male voice replied to the summons. "Mr. Halstead. Mr. Vernon Halstead, please. . . . Well, wake him, then. . . . I can't help that, it's important."
A wistaria lounging-robe was on in a twinkling, with quilted slippers to match. Then Patsy's eager fingers drew forth a dark emerald velvet, with bodice and panniers of gold lace, and she clasped it ecstatically in her arms. "Miriam always had divine taste, but the faeries must have guided her hand for the choosing of this.
The door into the adjoining bedroom opened and Constance came out attired in a lounging-robe that made both girls gasp with admiration. "Oh, Miss Connie," Frances exclaimed, "what a beautiful kimono. And what color is it?" "Guess," said Constance merrily. "For a long time I didn't know myself what to call it." "It isn't blue nor gray," said Edith admiringly.
His heavy tread through the weather vestibule announced his entrance into the office. He took no pains to walk softly. Ashton, attired in a lounging-robe of scarlet silk, was half reclining in an easy chair. The big desk beside him was littered with engineering journals, reports, and blueprints of bridge plans, topped with detail drawings in ink of the long central span.
"And more beautiful?" suggested Mrs. Vanderpool, slipping her arms into her lounging-robe. "Oh, no; not nearly so beautiful. And yet more interesting." Then with a puzzled look: "I wonder why?" "Perhaps because it's people and not things." "It's people in the swamp," asserted Zora, dreamily, smoothing out the pillows of the couch, "'little people, I call them.
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