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Updated: May 26, 2025
The hair rolled back a little too severely for the prevailing mode, and she recalled her late visitor's effectively adjusted side-combs, her soft, dark waves. "They have time for it, evidently," she mused, "and after all it is certainly more important than modal auxiliaries!"
The jackets of May are outshone by the jackets of June; the buttons of June are antiquated in July; the trimmings of July are passées by September; side-combs, back-combs, puffs, rats, and all sorts of such matters, are in a distracted race of improvement; every article of feminine toilet is on the move towards perfection.
"If somebody gave you half-a-crown," I put it to her, "what would you buy with it?" "Side-combs," said my aunt; she was always losing or breaking her side-combs. "But I mean if you were me," I explained. "Drat the child!" said my aunt; "how do I know what he wants if he don't know himself. Idiot!" The shop windows into which I stared, my nose glued to the pane! The things I asked the price of!
Frothingham's long hands hung down and he looked as if she had proposed a jaunt to Mars. "My physician has ordered a sea-change," he mumbled doubtfully, "my daughter Antoinette I really there is nothing in all my experience " "Olivia!" Mrs. Hastings in tears was superintending the search for both side-combs. "Aunt Dora," said Olivia, "you're not going to fail me now.
"Upon my word; now, Mr. Magrath, you're very impudent," she replied, "I wonder you're not ashamed, you great strong man you, to be kissing girls in this manner, whether they will or not. Look at the state you have my hair in; you're very rude, Mr. Magrath, and I'm really angry with you; you've broken one of my side-combs, too; you're a great rude man, so you are."
At the waist, it was fastened with a green morocco belt and gilded buckle. The front-hair, now accustomed to be parted, had grown long enough to be becomingly arranged with the jewelled side-combs, which she prized so highly.
Then she felt her sash in the back, settled her side-combs, and raising herself from the organ bench, smoothed her skirts into proper folds under her. After these preliminaries she leaned back, raised both hands with a grand flourish, and swooped down on the keys. "Bang on the low notes and twiddle on the high!" laughed Lloyd, under her breath. "Listen, Mistah Shelby.
It all looked unpromising enough in the broad daylight; the boat with its high stiff prow made of dry goods boxes and covered with black calico, and Lloyd stretched out on the bier in a modern shirtwaist suit with side-combs in her hair.
And a month afterward I landed on the coast of this Gaudymala with $1,300 that I had been saving up for five years. I thought I knew what Indians liked, and I fixed myself accordingly. I loaded down four pack-mules with red woollen blankets, wrought-iron pails, jewelled side-combs for the ladies, glass necklaces, and safety-razors.
Incidentally, it had been found, when the auto which Roy had driven to the deserted house was towed back for repairs, that the tank had been punctured by some sharp instrument. As for the clue of the brilliant-studded comb, Peggy on examining it, declared it to be one of a pair of side-combs, which only complicated the mystery.
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