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Euryale, too, begged Melissa to allow it, as nothing would make her so conspicuous in her overdressed surroundings as excessive simplicity. That was quite true, but it made the girl realize so vividly what was before her, that she covered her face with her hands and sobbed out: "To be exposed to the gaze of the whole city to its envy and its scorn!"
She saw that he was studying her, and she laughed a little uneasily, looking all the time into his eyes. "Shockingly overdressed, ain't I?" she said. "We were going straight to Carmarthen House, you know. Come and sit in this corner for a moment, and order me some coffee. I suppose there isn't any less public place!" "I fear not," he answered. "You will perhaps be unobserved behind this palm."
We could well afford to laugh merrily at her scornful expostulations; for while she was repeating platitudes to overdressed and uninteresting people at Oldport, we should be making sunny play of life with men and women whose thoughts were free as the wind, and whose hearts were fresh as the dew and the stars.
There was a mingling of excitement and a certain sense of bereavement in her mind; she would have liked to gaze at that embodiment of overdressed depravity for just a little longer. "I 'spect she's going away in a kerridge to marry the rich lord," hazarded Bert. "She's up to no good," said Emmeline vaguely. Inside the shop the purchase of the doll had been decided on.
He buttoned his coat over his checked vest and says: 'I take that unkindly, madam calling me overdressed. I selected this suiting with great care. It ain't nice to call me overdressed. I feel it deeply. "But they was off again before one thing could lead to another, taking bottles of hard liquor they had uncorked. 'The open road! The open road! they yelled as they went. "Well, that's about all.
Here she was at home; in London she became some one concealed by clothes, an artificial doll overdressed and moving by clockwork, only a portion of her alive. Here she was alive all over. I forget altogether how she was dressed, just as I forget how any particular tree was dressed, or how the markings ran on any one of the boulders that lay about the Camp.
Two of the people he had never seen before, and the others consisted of Ernest Harrowden, one of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends; Lady Ruxton, an overdressed woman of forty-seven, with a hooked nose, who was always trying to get herself compromised, but was so peculiarly plain that to her great disappointment no one would ever believe anything against her; Mrs.
Only Jane could ever fill her place adequately; Jane with her short skirts and graceful, swinging walk, and her queer plain hats that so perfectly became her, and made country neighbours look overdressed.
Seymour Fentolin. She is a strange, tired-looking woman who seems to stand in mortal fear of Mr. Fentolin. She is always overdressed and never natural, but it seems to me that nearly everything she does is done to suit his whims, or at his instigation." Kinsley nodded thoughtfully. "I remember Seymour Fentolin," he said; "a really fine fellow he was. Well, who else?" "Just the nephew and niece.
Tudwalls at the base of the green promontory beyond the Roads. She forgets that this little overdressed person is Beauvayse's wife. She forgets in the moment that she herself is Saxham's. She is back in the beloved past with the Mother.
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