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"And you," he went on gravely, wiping his face with the bit of cambric, "are Sylvia Marshall, presumably Miss; you can laugh at a joke on yourself; are not afraid to wash your face with kitchen soap; and apparently are the only girl in the twentieth century who has not a mirror and a powder-puff concealed about her person." All approbation was sweet to Sylvia. She basked in this.
Then she sat back on the seat, smoothed her hair under the hat, unclasped the bag, and patted her features delicately with the powder-puff. Neither knew the exact time, and in vain they tried to discern the faces of clocks that flew past them in the heavy rain. Christine sighed and said: "These tempests. This rain. They say it is because of the big cannons which break the clouds."
Then she came with her companions to a sort of parlour with a polished floor, not large and rather vacant, where her attention flew delightedly to a coat-tree, in a corner, from which three or four dresses were suspended dresses she immediately perceived to be costumes in that night's play accompanied by a saucer of something and a much-worn powder-puff casually left on a sofa.
Even if they do bring an indictment, Helen can prove her innocence." The sobs diminished to sniffles, and then to occasional sighs. She opened her bag, extracted a miniature powder-puff and dabbed at her small upturned nose spitefully. I knew that the storm had passed. "I know that that I'm foolish to c-cry, but I just c-couldn't help it." A clerk opened the door and called Mary's name.
"I know I've left them behind!" she exclaimed. "Whatever shall I do? My scent and powder-puff! Peter, it's terrible! I can't go to Soho to dinner without them." "Let's go and get some," he suggested; "there's time." "No, I can't," she said. "You go. Don't be long. I want to sit in front of the fire and be cosy." Peter set off on the unfamiliar errand, smiling grimly to himself.
I know a guy turned out a powder-puff looked like a lor'nette a quarter of a dollar. You know how the Janes'll fall for a thing like that " It was completely preposterous, almost uncomfortable. It made a man look around him. On the schooner's port side spread the empty blue of the South Pacific; the tenuous snowdrift of the reef, far out, and the horizon.
These rooms, with busts and pictures of kings, swarmed with old nobility, with historic names, stars, red ribbons, and silver bells at their button-holes: ladies in little white satin hats and toques, with a profusion of ostrich or, still better, marabout powder-puff feathers; and the roofs were too low for such lofty heads.
She was standing before a mirror, dabbing her neck with a powder-puff histronic to the last; she was showing me how she had to resort to this to cover up the marks of my assault. I have failed in my picture of her if I have not portrayed her as a woman of moods and lightning changes.
I've tried every damn thing in the dressing-room. I've tried soap and water and even perfume and I've ruined my powder-puff trying to make it stick to that." Jim considered the question in some agitation. "Why I think maybe gasolene "
In one corner Silvani the illustrious Silvani, still wearing the large white apron he assumes when powdering his clients was putting away his powder-puff and turning down his sleeves with a satisfied air. I stood petrified. What was going on at my aunt's? She discovered my astonishment, and without turning round she said in agitated tones: "Ah! is it you, Ernest?"
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