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But Emily drifted out shyly, fussed carefully with fans or glove- clasps while looking furtively about for possible partners, returned in a panic to the dressing-room on a pretense of exploring a slipper-bag for a handkerchief, and made a fresh start.
The Commander and his secretary discreetly retired to an angle of the wall. "I find everything as I left it, my dear, even to my slipper-bag," said Mrs. Markham. "They've forgotten nothing." "But you are a captive!" said Eleanor. "What does it mean?" "Nothing, my dear. I gave them a piece of my mind," said Mrs.
Next to him, her party dress and slipper-bag concealed by a rain-coat, sat Annette, hot and rebellious, and in anything but a prayerful frame of mind. Beside her sat Sandy, rigid with elegance, his eyes riveted on the preacher, but his thoughts on his feet.
'There's only the one slipper here, said Aunt Annie, feeling in the embroidered slipper-bag which depended from a glittering brass nail in the recess to the right of the fireplace. And this fireplace was on the ground-floor, and not in Oxford Street. 'I was mending the other this morning, said Mrs. Knight, springing up with all her excessive stoutness from the easy-chair.
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