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He continued to look at her a moment, and laughed as he sat down beside her. Later he walked home with her. A dinner and bridge followed, and it was after midnight when she returned. As her maid unfastened her gown she perceived that her pincushion had been replaced by the one she had received at the ball. "Did you put that there, Mathilde?" she asked. Mathilde had.
Carmel, hearing that she was collecting post cards, sent home for some special ones of Sicily; Dulcie tendered chocolates; Lilias crocheted her a pincushion cover, and Bertha painted her a hair-tidy. She accepted their little kindnesses with mild astonishment, but not a hint of the real reason of their sudden advances flashed across her mind. "We mustn't let her suspect!" said Dulcie.
Heredith's room which disappeared while I was downstairs. I found it stuck in a pincushion in the next room, beside the girl's hat. She must have realized that she dropped it in the murdered woman's bedroom, and seized the opportunity to return for it while I was out of the room. That is a piece of direct evidence that she was in Mrs. Heredith's bedroom." "So you were right about the brooch.
We do all we can already; and I don't want to get a fine bag or a ridiculous pincushion in exchange!" "Not you, but " "Well, for the rest. If they like to offer their money, well and good, the better for them; but why must they not give it to Cocksmoor but for that unnatural butterfly of Blanche's, with black pins for horns, that they will go and sell at an extortionate rate."
"Yes, you'll have a Louis Umpsteenth boudoir, when you get back to Rockwell." "I shan't use it down here," said Marjorie, fingering the pretty trifle, "for the sea air spoils such things. But when I get home I'll fix my room all up gay, may I, Mother?" "I 'spect so. It's time you had a new wallpaper, anyway, and we'll get one with little pink rosebuds to match King's pincushion."
To be thus suddenly surprised, and at the same time to be made the attractive point of so many eyes, was more than Faith Lily's composure could bear. Her lip quivered like a little child's, her blue eyes filled with tears and over-flowed she began softly to sob. Doodles looked distressed. Then he did the best thing possible. He took up the pincushion. "Mrs.
He tried to make the curtains meet, but they would not draw; and like many a gentleman in a like perplexity, he did not possess a pin, nor was there one in the huge pincushion beneath the glass. He turned the face of the mirror away therefore, so that its back was presented to the bed, pulled the curtains together, and placed a chair against them, to prevent their falling open again.
Women, and especially married women, stick ideas into their brain-pan precisely as they stick pins into a pincushion, and the devil himself, do you mind? could not get them out: they reserve to themselves the exclusive right of sticking them in, pulling them out, and sticking them in again. Caroline is riding home one evening from Madame Foullepointe's in a violent state of jealousy and ambition.
A little bedstead, of painted wood and old-fashioned shape, was hung with yellow cotton printed with red stars, one armchair and two small chairs, also of painted wood, and covered with the same cotton print of which the window-curtains were also made; a gray wall-paper sprigged with flowers blackened and greasy with age; a fireplace full of kitchen utensils of the vilest kind, two bundles of fire-logs; a stone shelf, on which lay some jewelry false and real, a pair of scissors, a dirty pincushion, and some white scented gloves; an exquisite hat perched on the water-jug, a Ternaux shawl stopping a hole in the window, a handsome gown hanging from a nail; a little hard sofa, with no cushions; broken clogs and dainty slippers, boots that a queen might have coveted; cheap china plates, cracked or chipped, with fragments of a past meal, and nickel forks the plate of the Paris poor; a basket full of potatoes and dirty linen, with a smart gauze cap on the top; a rickety wardrobe, with a glass door, open and empty, and on the shelves sundry pawn-tickets, this was the medley of things, dismal or pleasing, abject and handsome, that fell on his eye.
Julia, you will on no account go and see that little pestiferous swarm of Newcomes, unless you want to send me out of the world which I dare say you do, for I am a dreadful plague to you, I know, and my death would be a release to you." "You see Doctor H., who visits the child every day," cries poor Pincushion; "you are not afraid when he comes."
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