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I don't know a thing in the world about furs. All I know is that I've seen some I liked, and some that I didn't care much for." For half an hour Jean tried on coats, until her choice had narrowed down to a handsome dark baum marten, and a shimmery gray squirrel. "I think they're both lovely, and I can't quite make up my mind," she said at last, in a tone of mock despair.
Presently, she went over to her wardrobe and took out a beautiful shimmery pink shawl. What it was made of I cannot tell, except that it shivered and quivered with little colors like a rainbow. Perhaps it was made of changeable sea-silk. At any rate, Mary Louise, who at that moment opened her eyes, thought it was the most exquisite thing she had ever seen. "Is it really for me?
She was dressed in clinging robes of shimmery green texture, the new-fashioned high-waisted effect suiting her graceful figure to perfection. The large Charlotte, made of velvet to match the gown, cast a deep shadow over the upper part of her face, and gave a peculiar softness to the outline of her forehead and cheeks.
His heart would go with her, but though it killed him he would never modify the rigors of his self-appointed exile from her presence until an advance came from her. Each night he secretly stole over to a point of ambuscade from which he could see the shimmery flash of her dress as she moved about the porch, cavaliered by the odious Jimmy and his fellows.
Hannah’s frock was of silk, not a common material in those days, soft and shimmery and green enough to take away the heart from anything blue that was ever made, but Hannah was stately and her skin as white as the lily she resembled, in her bright leaf green.
And up from the water came the little gray goose fresh and in good trim and told how Thumbietot had pulled her wing into place, and that she was entirely well, and ready to follow them on the journey. The drops of water lay like pearl-dew on her shimmery satin-like feathers, and Thumbietot thought once again that she was a real little princess. Wednesday, April sixth.
Well, the only intelligible things he had said were should he repeat them now? Well, the two words he had said over and over again were "Steve Hannah Hannah Steve." So the cloth-of-gold wedding with the sunken-garden setting was changed for a wedding at twilight in the conservatory, Beatrice dressed in shimmery mauve out of memory to dear papa!
"You will please wear the black gown with the shimmery things all over it. I can't describe it, but I can remember it. And a single red rose," he judiciously added. "'Tis October and the florists are fifty miles away," she demurred. "It would take a magician's wand to produce the red rose." "I noticed a funny looking thing among my golf sticks," he remembered.
I feel so elegant in my pretty blue travelling suit, and I'm just aching for a chance to wear the beautiful little evening dresses they chose, one white pongee, and the other some new sort of goods that looks just like a soft shimmery cloud, a regular picture dress.
Doesn't charity cover a multitude of skins, though? And doesn't it beat a jimmy when it comes to breaking into society!" Mary Virginia, he added in an altered voice, had been exquisite in a frock all silver lace and shimmery stuffs like moonbeams, and with a rope of pearls about her throat, and in her black hair.
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