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The only moments that this atmosphere seemed to yield at all was when Peter took a very miscellaneous collection of rubbish out of a little sachet, meant for handkerchiefs, which he now carried in his breast-pocket, and touched the various articles to his lips. Then for a time he would look a little less suicidal.
The sweat stiffening the hair upon her back and loins, as it dried, gave off a penetrating, ammoniacal odour that mingled with the stale perfume of sachet and wilted flowers. Presley and Vanamee stood looking at the deserted barn. There was a long silence. Then Presley said: "Well... what do you think of it all?"
There would be a fragrance about the white dress and the laces, and ermine, and the silk things that you could not see, a fragrance as mysterious as the rustling, for it would seem to belong to the girl, and not to have come from any bottle, or bag of sachet powder. A sweet, fresh, indefinable fragrance, like the smell of a tea rose after rain.
I've had you in mind ever since." On this nearer view Minna observed that the woman's face bore rather more than a trace of enamel and that the atmosphere about was impregnated with sachet.
In the next instant, she recovered herself, and, giving the lace a quick fillip that sent its odour of sachet leaping to his nostrils, responded with perfect composure. "Isn't there a distinction between posing for an artist, and sitting for one's portrait?" she asked. He was silent. The fact that he did not respond seemed to disturb her after a moment or two.
A minute's reflection enabled me to come very near the secret, and at the same time shed a flood of light on several dark places, What Clon had been seeking on the path between the house and the village, what the goodwife of the inn had sought among the sweepings of yard and floor, I knew now the sachet knew, too, what had caused the marked and sudden anxiety I had noticed at the Chateau the loss of this sachet.
But they had to pretend that Baby remembered, too. He hadn't really got what you would call a memory. "Ranny! Fancy you remembering that I had cold feet!" That night he went home with her to Johnson's side door, carrying the sachet and the hot-water bag and the things his mother had given her. Thus nineteen-seven, that dreadful year, rolled over into nineteen-eight.
"Mon sachet de fleurs," says Montaigne, "sert d'abord
I gave each one a list of their expenditures, with the cost of everything on it, and each had a little left over after getting their slippers and some sachet powder and a bottle of violet-water apiece, and, after all, that brother of Miss Araminta's got a little of the sapphire money. But it wasn't much. I saw to that. It's been awfully exciting in Twickenham lately.
"Myron used to like good cologne, but I can't afford to buy it, so I make it myself, and use it Sundays, and it's all blown away by the time I get to church. Myron says he is glad of it, for it is more like Mrs. Allen's Hair Restorer than anything else. What do you use, Pauline?" "Sachet powder of course," said Miss Dallas, smiling.
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