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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Izz is about house as usual; but 'a do say 'a can guess how it happened; and she seems to be very low in mind about it, poor maid, as well she mid be. And so you see, sir, as all this happened just when we was packing your few traps and your Mis'ess's night-rail and dressing things into the cart, why, it belated me." "Yes.
A poor twanking woman like her 'tis a godsend for her, and hardly a pair of jumps or night-rail to her name." The plain little brougham drove off in the mist, and the idlers dispersed. "Well, we hardly know how to look at things in these times!" said Solomon.
Harry Esmond recollected to the end of his life that figure, with the brocade dress and the white night-rail, and the gold-clocked red stockings, and white red-heeled shoes, sitting up in the bed, and stepping down from it.
"'Od's, you may thank your own devilish thick head," said my Lord Comyn. "I should never have bothered my own about you were it not for her. Had it not been for her happiness do you imagine I would have picked you out of that crew of half-dead pirates in the Texel fort?" I must needs brush my cheek, then, with the sleeve of my night-rail.
"Some villain has betrayed us," cried out my lady, sitting up in the bed, showing herself full dressed under her night-rail. "And now your ladyship can move, I am sure; permit me to give you my hand to rise. You will have to travel for some distance, as far as Hexton Castle to-night. Will you have your coach? Your woman shall attend you if you like and the japan-box?"
Observing several to be very busy at the western end of the temple, I inquired into what they were doing, and found there was in that quarter the great magazine of rebuses. These were several things of the most different natures tied up in bundles, and thrown upon one another in heaps like fagots. You might behold an anchor, a night-rail, and a hobby- horse bound up together.
'Comfort the women-folk, dear, he answered. Then, catching sight as the wind moved her cloak of her night-rail, he added quickly: 'Run down and dress first. 'Is there truly time? 'Aye, aye, time and to spare. We may float the ship yet, God willing. Do as I bid you. She lingered for a moment, and said softly: 'If anything should happen, let me be next you at the last.
She was sent to her room earlier than usual, that she might make up in advance for the early start of the journey, and she did not dally with her disrobing, the room being almost arctic in its coldness. But after she had put on the short night-rail that was the bed-gown of the period, the girl paused for a moment in front of her mirror, even though she shivered as she did so.
The latter was habited like the other watchman, in a blue night-rail, and was armed with a halberd. He answered to the name of Bernard Boutefeu. They had no sooner entered the shop, than Leonard locked the door. "Who are these persons?" asked Amabel, rising in great alarm. "Two watchmen whom I have hired to guard the house," replied Leonard.
"'Od's, you may thank your own devilish thick head," said my Lord Comyn. "I should never have bothered my own about you were it not for her. Had it not been for her happiness do you imagine I would have picked you out of that crew of half-dead pirates in the Texel fort?" I must needs brush my cheek, then, with the sleeve of my night-rail.
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