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Updated: June 26, 2025
On the ground, on an outspread rug, sat the Gipsy men and Gipsy women, singing, and thumping tambourines; and in the middle of them, with a guitar in his hands, clad in a red-silk shirt and full trousers of velvet, Mísha was gyrating like a whirligig. "Gentlemen! Respected sirs! Pray enter! The performance is about to begin! Free!" he was shouting in a cracked voice. "Hey there! Champagne! Bang!
Brandon returned, as requested, her costume enlivened this time by a red-silk petticoat which contrived to show its ingratiating flounces beneath the glistening black broadcloth of her skirt. "Say, did you get on to that?" observed one of the doormen, a hold-over from the previous regime, to another of the same vintage. "Some style to the new administration, hey? We're not so slow, do you think?"
"Well," exclaimed the general, taking off his Panama hat and mopping his perspiring head and face with a huge red-silk handkerchief, "that is a good job well done, and without the loss of a man, too except, of course, the unfortunate four that we were too late to save. You have managed the affair exceedingly well, young sir, as I shall be happy to bear witness at another time and place.
I pushed it open, went in, and saw a very old man, his head bound with a red-silk handkerchief, bolstered in bed. His wife, grandmother-in-law, sat by the fire reading a great Bible. "Marm Tamor, will you please show me Ruth and Boaz?" I asked. She complied by turning over the leaves till she came to the picture. "Did Ruth love Boaz dreadfully much?"
It fell into a stiff propriety of opening and shutting, at the touch of people who understood that a gate was made merely to pass through, not to lean upon. That summer Vaillantcoeur had a new hat a black and shiny beaver and a new red-silk cravat. They looked fine on Corpus Christi day, when he and 'Toinette walked together as fiancee's.
The rosy shadow of the red-silk curtains behind her fell upon her face, bosom, and arms, with a ruddy glow. "I am to have the honor of dancing the cotillon with you, I believe?" he said, still looking down. "Yes, I believe so," she responded "at least so I am told; but you have not asked me yet. Perhaps you would prefer some one else. I confess I am satisfied."
He did not know whether, in his new position, he was expected to suggest. Belward understood, and it pleased him. "If we had lost the track of a buck moose, or were nosing a cache of furs, you'd find a way, Brillon." "Voila," said Jacques; "then, why not wear the buckskin vest, the red-silk sash, and the boots like these?" tapping his own leathers. "You look a grand seigneur so."
The procession was not a long one, and was formed of boys, half-grown, and wholly effervescent, wearing what was evidently an extemporized uniform, and carrying a banner which informed me that it was a boys' school, sent from an outlying town through the liberality of an 'Honorable' somebody whose name I did not hear; for the fact of the sending was not emblazoned upon the red-silk banner they carried, but was announced, often and willingly, in reply to numerous queries all along the line.
Such, doubtless, was the attitude assumed by several of the Imperial descendants who had obtained provincial estates. His mission had proved abortive, but the Emperor Suinin, Sujin's successor, gave him some red-silk fabrics to carry home and conferred on his country the name Mimana, in memory of Sujin, whose appellation during life had been Mimaki.
"Well, never mind what you were doing," said one of the men, soothingly; "you weren't in it, as you say. Return to the libretto." "Well," continued Travers, meekly, "let me see; where was I?" "You were in a red-silk box," suggested one of the men, reaching for the coffee. "Go on, Travers," said the first man. "The two men were kicking Van Bibber." "Oh, yes," cried Travers.
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