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On a July evening in 1548 the waiter was somewhat startled at the appearance of two simply-dressed, slight and timid-looking ladies seeking accommodation. Mrs. Gaskell describes the house as it was in those July days.
The congregation is tolerably numerous, has in it the high, the fair-middling, and the humble the good-looking, the well-dressed, the rubicund, the mildly mahogany-featured, the simply-dressed, the attenuated, and the indigent.
The appearance of the simply-dressed girl who had come downstairs the second time had so impressed Pratt Sanderson that he wished to get off here on the porch by himself for a minute or two. The first load of visitors was just driving up to the gate of the compound. He watched the girls from Amarillo, and Sue, and all the others descend, shake out their ruffles, and run up the steps.
"The girls, who were pretty, wore peculiar dresses to indicate their calling, and seemed of an entirely different stamp from the quiet, simply-dressed waitresses whom we found so attentive to our wants; still they all looked cheery, light-hearted, simple creatures, and appeared to enjoy immensely the little childish games they played amongst themselves between whiles."
Every one looked at these simply-dressed men in foreign costumes, at these two noble heads so full of character and meaning. On their side, Athos and D'Artagnan, having with two glances taken the measure of the whole assembly, resumed their chat.
Every one looked at these simply-dressed men in foreign costumes, at these two noble heads so full of character and meaning. On their side, Athos and D'Artagnan, having with two glances taken the measure of the whole assembly, resumed their chat.
A novel feeling of distinction was added to my swelling current of new pleasures. A ruddy, simply-dressed, black-haired lady, but of natural and cultured manner, was now received by her with much cordiality, and I had an opportunity to survey the whole concourse and continue my observations.
Monsieur, that simply-dressed old fellow is said to be the `smartest' that is the Yankee word the smartest sportsman in the Mississippi valley, and such are not scarce, I trow." "After all, they are strangers to each other, and one of them is my partner I do not see how they can " "Strangers to each other!" interrupted my new friend. "Since when have they become acquainted?
Benassis' arrival interrupted the discourse of a tall, simply-dressed woman, with thin locks of hair, who held the dead man's hand in hers in a way that spoke eloquently. The dead master of the house had been arrayed in his best clothes, and now lay stretched out cold and stiff upon the bed.
Miss Harrow received her visitors in a small and soberly furnished drawing-room. She was nervous, probably because of Jasper Milvain, whom she had met but once last spring and who on that occasion had struck her as an alarmingly modern young man. In the shadow of a window-curtain sat a slight, simply-dressed girl, whose short curly hair and thoughtful countenance Jasper again recognised.
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