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Updated: May 18, 2025
Along the line of seated women painted fans were fluttering, bouquets half-hid smiling faces, and gold-stoppered scent-bottles were turned in partly-closed hands, whose white gloves outlined the nails and tightened on the flesh at the wrists. Lace trimmings, diamond brooches, medallion bracelets trembled on bodices, gleamed on breasts, clinked on bare arms.
In the house, passing the parlour door, she tip-toed, scarcely knowing why. There was now utter silence in the parlour why were they so still? Perhaps they had gone out somewhere. Without any definite plan, but still tip-toeing in the manner she and grandma had approached to overhear the law-suit, she moved toward the partly-closed door.
Along the line of seated women painted fans were fluttering, bouquets half hid smiling faces, and gold stoppered scent-bottles were turned in partly-closed hands, whose white gloves outlined the nails and tightened on the flesh at the wrists. Lace trimmings, diamond brooches, medallion bracelets trembled on bodices, gleamed on breasts, clinked on bare arms.
Tess had spoken to her husband from the doorway, without entering the dining-room, and Mrs Brooks, who stood within the partly-closed door of her own sitting-room at the back of the passage, could hear fragments of the conversation if conversation it could be called between those two wretched souls.
"Oh, no indeed!" exclaimed Cora, blushing that he should have mistaken her meaning. "You were generous too generous, I think." "Oh, that's all right. I'm not complaining. Of course it was a fair race. The faster boat won." "I'm glad you think so," spoke Cora, meaningly, as she thought of the partly-closed throttle. "Oh, yes indeed. I'm satisfied!" he exclaimed in generous tones.
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