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He was writing, and she put her left hand on his back while with her right she held her sacque slung over her shoulder by the loop, and leaned forward with a wandering eye on the papers that strewed the table. In that attitude he felt her pause and grow absorbed, and then rigid; her light caress tightened into a grip. "Why, how base! How shameful! That man shall never enter my doors again!
Just to think of her fur sacque, and great handsome shawl, and here I havn't had a new cloak this ten years have to wear my blanket shawl to church. "Yes, I think's much!" answered Mrs. Myers, emphatically. "She's as proud as Lucifer, too. Mr. "Well, it's too bad," Mrs.
"Haven't you an old dressing sacque? I could roll the sleeves." Margaret got an old sacque, and Elnora put it on Billy. Then she brought a basin of water and bathed his face and head. She gathered him up and began to rock again. "Have you got a pa?" asked Billy. "No," said Elnora. "Is he dead like mine?" "Yes." "Did it hurt him to die?" "I don't know." Billy was wide awake again.
Thus it was at the same time an instrument of correction and of deportment. Whatever bodily defects the early Georgian damsels possessed they certainly had straight backs and level shoulders. The backboard was admirable training for the carriage of the stately sacque, the graceful flirting of the fan and for the dancing of the grave and dignified minuet. The day was nearing its end.
"She told us to amuse you, and we can do it ever so much better out here than poking round in the house." "I'm afraid I shall get cold without my sacque," began Rose, who wanted to stay, but felt rather out of her element. "No, you won't!
She was a shrewd and cynical critic. Nevertheless, to go to the play was a sort of going home to her a home neither very socially nor morally exalted, perhaps, but one offering the advantages of perfect familiarity. Huddled in a black velvet fur-lined sacque, reaching to her feet and abundantly trimmed with jet embroidery and black lace, she settled herself in her place.
Butler was a man of prudence, and aware that real good can only be obtained by remonstrance when remonstrance is well-timed; so for the present he said nothing more on the subject. When breakfast was half over, in flounced Mrs. Dolly, as fine as a blue sacque and cherry-coloured ribands could make her.
She asked him how they could afford both of the things at once, but he answered with easy mystery that he had provided the funds; and she went gayly round with him to call on the Hallecks that evening and show off her sacque.
Cinders fell in immense showers, and the fine ashes, with which the air was filled, choked us and got into our eyes. "'There is only one chance, said I; 'and that is to make a dash for the river. Can you do it? "'I'll try, she said. "'We'll have to go through the fires. "She nodded. "'Well, then, I said, 'do as I say. Take off your sacque and wrap it around your head and shoulders.
Butler was a man of prudence, and aware that real good can only be obtained by remonstrance when remonstrance is well-timed; so for the present he said nothing more on the subject. When breakfast was half over, in flounced Mrs. Dolly, as fine as a blue sacque and cherry-coloured ribands could make her.
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