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Will smiled upon her indulgently. "It's just as well we don't all like the same people. He looked happy enough anyhow." "In his lordly, cynical fashion," objected Daisy. "He was quite the most self-possessed bridegroom I ever saw." "Just as well perhaps," commented Will. "Olga was positively shaking with nervousness. Dr. Jim went grimly armed with a brandy-flask and smelling-salts."
On a small inlaid table, whose carvings were as beautiful, and its top inlaid with mosaic-work, lay a dainty handkerchief of lace, a bottle of smelling-salts, and a book turned with its face downwards, all close at the lady's elbow.
"The smelling-salts quick!" said Miss Middleton, as she closed her eyes. "Doing dumb-bells. Ten lunges to the east, ten lunges to the west, ten lunges " "Were you reducing your figure?" "I don't know what I was doing. But there I found myself on the cold oil-cloth, lunging away lunging and lunging and " I stopped and gazed into the fire again.
Besides, I detest crowds, and I never go to my own President's receptions; and I have a headache, anyway, and I don't feel like coping with the Reverend Ronald to-night!" "Sally, my dear," I said, as Francesca left the room with a bottle of smelling-salts somewhat ostentatiously in evidence, "methinks the damsel doth protest too much.
Nunn's lace shawl, which had fallen to her waist in the ardour of the game, gathered up her fan, smelling-salts, and winnings, then, with a slight drop in her spirit, steeled herself to walk the great length of the saloon to the thrice blessed exit. Mrs.
And no sooner had they cast it aside than a fresh toy, another piece of mechanism, came on the scene to captivate their hearts, and instead of a help, to form a hindrance. The motor not only carried them back over all the ground they had covered on the bicycle, but further still, almost back to the times of chairs and fans and smelling-salts and sprained ankles at Lyme Regis.
I stood aside and let them file past me. Mrs. Riley-Werkheimer moved very nimbly for one who had just been revived by smelling-salts. As her husband went by, he half halted in front of me. A curious glitter leaped into his fishy eyes. "I'd give a thousand dollars to be free to do what you did to that insufferable puppy, Mr. Mr. ahem. A cool thousand, damn him!"
Nor was the demonstration confined to the male portion of the assembly. One lady, indeed, who is a prominent leader in society, but whose name shall not be divulged here, was so carried away by her feelings as to hurl a heavy cut-glass bottle of smelling-salts at Horace's offending head. "Will you hear me out?" Ventimore shouted. "I'm not trifling.
Dearman heard his wife sobbing in bed. Going to her he asked what was the matter, and produced eau-de-Cologne, phenacetin, smelling-salts and sympathy. She said that nothing at all was the matter and he went away and pondered. Next day he asked her if he could row her on the river as he wanted some exercise, and Augustus was not available to take her for a drive or anything.
Stand back give her air get some water, some smelling-salts quick don't stand there lookin' at her: do somethin'!" Peg loosened Ethel's dress and talked to her all the while, and Jerry and Alaric hurried out in different directions in quest of restoratives. Mrs. Chichester came toward Ethel, thoroughly alarmed and upset. But Peg would not let her touch the inanimate girl.
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