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Updated: June 2, 2025
It was out of touch with the general quiet: "When the gay Forty-Seventh is dashing ashore, While bullets are whistling and cannons do roar, Says Montcalm, 'Those are Shirleys I know the lapels. 'You lie, says Ned Botwood, 'we swipe for Lascelles! Though our clothing is changed, and we scout powder-puff, Here's at you, ye swabs here's give you Hot Stuff!"
She was inclined to be stout, and her face was flushed with walking, notwithstanding an obviously recent use of the powder-puff. A mass of copper-colored hair was untidily arranged underneath a large black hat. Her clothes were fashionable in cut, but cheap in quality. She wore openwork stockings and high-heeled shoes, which had already suffered from walking along the dusty roads.
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?"
What could one do, after one's bath was taken, one's hair done, and one's gown donned oh, of course, powder! She applied it liberally, and then wiped away every grain, that being what she had seen older girls do in the Gymnasium dressing-room. Then with a last survey of her face, unaltered by the ceremonial with the powder-puff, she stepped to the door.
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?"
Her luggage was a model of compactness: it consisted of a sleeping-bag, a notebook, half a dozen pencils and a powder-puff. She explained that she brought the sleeping-bag because she understood that war correspondents always slept in the field.
The rouge-box lay lonely and untouched in a drawer. Even the powder-puff suffered an unaccustomed neglect. The black gown had been tried on and taught to fit the thin young figure, and a hat with only one feather kept company with the discarded sarcophagus which had given to Cuckoo her original nickname. And Cuckoo herself was almost as excited as Francine when she received her muff.
"She appeared to me to be a singularly charming and very beautiful lady," Arnold replied, writing quickly. Mr. Jarvis was disappointed. "She's good-looking enough," he admitted. "I can't say that I've seen much of her, mind you, but she gave me the impression of a woman who wasn't above using the powder-puff.
"I shall be happy to offer you my services in case you wish to cut each other's throats," said a French officer of the Papal Zouaves who stood by the fireplace rolling a cigarette. Whereupon everybody laughed loudly. "Thanks," answered Valdarno; "I am expecting a challenge every minute. If he proposes a powder-puff and a box of rouge for the weapons, I accept without hesitation.
She stuffed the notes and gold back into her bag, looked at her hat in the glass and touched her face for a moment with a powder-puff. Then she left the room, rang for the lift and descended. "I am going into the Club for an hour or so, if I am wanted," she told the concierge as she passed out.
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