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Again the little model whispered: "Yes." Bianca's eyes travelled slowly over the blue beflowered walls and rust-red doors; through the dusty closeness of this dismantled room a rank scent of musk and violets rose, as though a cheap essence had been scattered as libation. A small empty scent-bottle stood on the shabby looking-glass. "Have you found new lodgings?"
We were ushered into a long narrow room, similar in shape to the reception-room in all other Nepaulese palaces, and adorned in like manner with a profusion of pictures, occidental as well as oriental, while in the midst, upon a round table, and displayed as drawing-room ornaments, was an incongruous collection of articles, amongst which I remarked three leaden spoons, an old cruet-stand, a Bohemian glass scent-bottle, an old hair-brush and tooth- brush on some hot-water plates, a pair of brass candlesticks, and other wares usually found in kitchens, pantries, and bedrooms.
One grim fist was frozen to the shattered wheel; the other, grimmer still, clutched the scent-bottle. A bosun's whistle sounded. On hands and knees the lad crept along the tilted deck past the old Commander. "That you, Mr. Caryll?" came a husky voice. "I canna see over plain." The old man had not moved, but one eye had opened and was glaring up from under the eaves of his cocked hat. "Yes, sir."
She would sail like a ship from Tarshish, gorgeous in velvet or rustling silk, done up in all the accompaniments of fans, ear-rings, and finger-rings, falling sleeves, scent-bottle, embroidered bag, hoop, and train; managing all this seemingly heavy rigging with as much ease as a full-blown swan does its plumage.
Behind us sit two pretty ladies; one hands her scent-bottle softly to the other, and a mother pulls down her little girl's frock. One lady drops her handkerchief; a gentleman picks it up; she blushes. The women in the choir turn softly the leaves of their tune-books, to be ready when the praying is done. It is as though they thought more of the singing than the Everlasting Father.
After you left the room, Miss Phipps asked if we had heard you say anything which would explain your going into that room, and we all remembered we didn't want to tell, but we were obliged we remembered that you said you intended to have a good look at the scent-bottle." "So I did, and I don't mind who you tell. I looked at it the very next day, but I never lifted it once.
If he was a Frenchman, he spoke English without a trace of accent. "Hanging on for dear life!" gurgled Kit, the scent-bottle between his teeth. The young man broke into a ripple of boyish laughter. "Flew so far: then the wings gave out, eh?" He rose to his feet, and Kit saw he was wearing buck-skin breeches and top-boots. Bending, he grasped the boy's wrists. "One two and h'up she comes!"
I send her a lot of flowers every morning you've no conception how much a few orchids cost. Then, whenever I go to see her I take her some little present a gold-mounted umbrella, a bicycle lamp, or a patent scent-bottle. I'm indebted to you, Julian, positively indebted to you for cutting short our engagement." I now go on to point two: the morning of the twelfth of June.
If Lord George would keep her secret, and Lady Glencora would be her friend, might she not still be a successful woman? So Lady Glencora Palliser was shown up to Lizzie's chamber. Lizzie was found with her nicest nightcap and prettiest handkerchief, with a volume of Tennyson's poetry, and a scent-bottle. She knew that it behoved her to be very clever at this interview.
"His laundress is following him with a change of linen, I suppose, or it's a scent-bottle. He's an admirable representative of the Lombard metropolis!" Corte drawled out the words in prodigious mimicry. "If Milan has nothing better to send than such a fellow, we'll finish without her, and shame the beast that she is. She has been always a treacherous beast!"
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