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The child nodded until her ringlets were shaken on her cheek. After a moment she began to laugh bashfully and with repression, yet as Mr. Hamlin thought a little mischievously. Then as he looked at her interrogatively she suddenly caught hold of the ruffle of his sleeve. "Oo's got on mammy's nighty." Mr. Hamlin started. He saw the child's obvious mistake and actually felt himself blushing.
She sat in her "nighty" amidst the wonders, books, and playthings in a circle about her, and the biggest doll of all hugged close in her arms. Captain Cy, who had arisen at half past five in order to be with her on the great occasion, was at least as happy as she. "Like 'em, do you?" he asked, smiling. "like 'em! O Uncle Cy! What makes everybody so good to me?" "I don't know.
I gathered myself up and pulled Melford's curtains open and was just going to fall on him tooth and nail, when I was nearly taken off my feet again by an apparition: well, it looked like an apparition, but it was a tall fellow in his nighty for it was twenty years before pajamas and he had a small dark lantern in his hand, such as we used to carry in those days so as to read in our berths when we couldn't sleep.
"Yes," said Bucci, "and I am a Colonel, and I have some decorations too, but I don't wear them on my nighty, and I want to go to sleep." He had been in Gorizia before Caporetto, and had kept, as a melancholy souvenir, the maps showing the line of his own Regiment's retreat. "I call it the Via Crucis," he said. "I want to go back.
The dew is fallin' and some rude person might accost you. You big slob! There's a man's work to do to-night, and as I don't seem to have no competition in holding the title, I s'pose it's my lead. I throwed him into a carriage. 'You'd best put on your nighty, and have the maid turn down your light. Sweet dreams, Gussie! I was plumb sore on him.
He looked narrowly into the frank, engaging eyes of the boy in the nighty. "I shall be overwhelmed," he said. Then his hand went to his mouth in the vain effort to cover the smile that played there. "My mother used to say that American girls liked titles," said the Prince with ingenuous candor. "Yes?" He hoped that she was eavesdropping. "Nurse said that I was not to keep you long, Mr.
He was only a child in a white nighty. David faced about; he got down off the chair, and he turned his accusing eyes upon Mother. She had fooled her little boy; she had told him a wrong story, and it was woful disillusionment. "You cannot see him, David," she said, "because you have no picture of him in your heart." Well, then, did Mother have such a picture?
The "nighty" was, perforce, absent, much to the sorrow of Ann; but the witchery of the glorious voice entered again into the woman's soul, and, indeed, sent the entire congregation home in an awed silence that was the height of admiring homage. At breakfast time Monday morning, Bobby came downstairs with his brown paper parcel under his arm.
"Oh, why not, dear Lady Katherine?" I said, "You don't know how becoming it is." "Becoming!" almost screamed Mary Mackintosh, "But no nice-minded woman wants things to look becoming in bed!" The whole matter appeared so painful to them I covered up the offending "nighty" with my dressing-gown, and coughed. It made a break, and they went away, saying good-night frigidly. And now I am alone.
Through that window they had all three sallied times without number to cricket on the lawn, and a mysterious game called 'Wopsy-doozle, not to be understood by outsiders, which made old Jolyon very hot. Here once on a warm night Holly had appeared in her 'nighty, having had a bad dream, to have the clutch of it released.
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