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Updated: June 2, 2025
And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy-so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him. Spring came, and they had long days in the garden, for wherever the Boy went the Rabbit went too.
There was little else to do, for he really need not bother to pay a farewell visit to Baron Perotti. Half an hour would suffice for the packing of all his possessions. He thought of the two suits, the shabbier of which he was wearing at that moment; of the much darned, though once elegant, underlinen.
Indeed, but for the feeling that she must be decent on Sundays, they would have let her go yet shabbier than she was when Mrs Forbes thus partially adopted her. Now that she was warmly and neatly dressed, she began to feel and look more like the lady-child she really was.
He was shabbier and more hopeless than ever, but his eyes were kind, his mouth gentle, and when she spoke of Stefan his face lighted up. She told him the story of the two friends, of his brother's wound and Stefan's crippling, and saw that his eyes filled with tears. "He was wonderful to me, Mrs. Byrd, he gave me a chance.
Last he came to the Domain and strolled there, and remembered his shame and sufferings, and looked with poignant curiosity at his successors. Hemstead, not much shabbier and no less cheerful than before, he recognised and addressed like an old family friend. "That was a good turn you did me," said he. "That railway was the making of me. I hope you've had luck yourself."
If that fellow goes up at 2:30, you'd better hurry." "I'll be ready before you are." She rose quickly, but Owen, looking, listening, had time to close the door unseen, unheard. At the rear of a little West Side saloon, he signaled with his horn, and Hicks came out. He was a bit shabbier than usual, and he had been drinking, but he was not intoxicated.
The straw panama on his head was many shades shabbier than his clothes, as if he had caught it up by accident. It needed the full shock of the huge shadow of MacIan, falling across his sunlit path, to rouse him from his smiling reverie.
When a man who seeks employment is shabby and gaunt and nerveless, his poverty lessens his chances, but to-morrow he will be weaker and shabbier, and day by day the rapidity of his declension will increase.
'I have seen you several times lately, said the broken gentleman, who looked shabbier than before in the broad daylight, 'but I I didn't like to speak. I live not far from here. 'Why, so do I, and I added, without much thinking what I said, 'do you live alone? 'Alone? oh no. With my wife. There was a curious embarrassment in his tone. His eyes were cast down and his head moved uneasily.
The solitude was at last broken by the approach of one feminine figure, who, though the evening was cold, wore the print gown and the tilt-bonnet of summer time. Tess instinctively thought it might be Marian, and when she came near enough to be distinguishable in the gloom, surely enough it was she. Marian was even stouter and redder in the face than formerly, and decidedly shabbier in attire.
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