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In his morning coat, people had to look twice at him to make sure that he did not look common; but now he was not wrong in thinking that he had an air of distinction, as he took his hat under his arm and stood before the pier-glass in his room.
The marquis leered at himself in the pier-glass and assumed a jauntiness of demeanor he was far from feeling. "I do not look tired or worried, François?" "Not at all, my lord," replied the obsequious valet. "I never saw you, my lord, appear so young and well." "Beneath the surface, François, there is age and weakness," answered the marquis in a melancholy tone.
If a mother could always keep her children about her, to be no older, no more difficult to make happy than Franky! She sighed, kissed the child, pushed from his face the admired curls, then dragged her rich, voluminous draperies to her own room, where her husband was already, by his silence she judged, asleep. There was a pier-glass in the large, handsomely furnished bedroom. Mrs.
Facing the only gas-lamp yawned the cavern of a second-hand furniture dealer, where, deep in the gloom of a sort of narrow avenue winding through a bizarre forest of wardrobes, with an undergrowth tangle of table legs, a tall pier-glass glimmered like a pool of water in a wood. An unhappy, homeless couch, accompanied by two unrelated chairs, stood in the open.
"None," I answered, rather sadly than otherwise. For she had touched me upon a sore spot. "But if I cannot win a woman save by compliments," I added, flaring up, "then may I pay a bachelor's tax!" My lady drew her whip across my knee. "You must tell us we are beautiful, Richard," said she, in another tone. "You have but to look in a pier-glass," I retorted. "And, besides, that is not sufficient.
With a gratified smile, she glanced at the pier-glass which reflected her graceful little figure, and, taking his arm, she walked slowly round the room, praising the tasteful arrangements. "Everything has such a bridal look!" she said. "Of course," replied he; "when I have such a fair Lily Bell for a bride, I wish to have her bower pearly and lily-like.
He smoothed and patted his ankles, transformed by silk socks from the sturdy shanks of George Babbitt to the elegant limbs of what is called a Clubman. He stood before the pier-glass, viewing his trim dinner-coat, his beautiful triple-braided trousers; and murmured in lyric beatitude, "By golly, I don't look so bad. I certainly don't look like Catawba.
When, half an hour before setting off for the ball, Modest Alexeitch went into her room without his coat on, to put his order round his neck before her pier-glass, dazzled by her beauty and the splendour of her fresh, ethereal dress, he combed his whiskers complacently and said: "So that's what my wife can look like . . . so that's what you can look like!
"She was dressed to receive some one did you notice?" he remarked as we sat down and cast our eyes over the dizzy array of inedibles on the card before us. "I think it is worth waiting a while to see who it is." Having ordered what I did not want, I glanced about until my eye rested on a large pier-glass at the other end of the dining-room. "Craig," I whispered excitedly, "Mrs.
It was well for Judy, that, being of the gentler sex, the wrath of the fireworker could not wreak itself upon her. The oftener he viewed himself in the pier-glass, trying in vain to think he did not look so very badly after all, the more bitter were his feelings.
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