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Updated: May 29, 2025
Within the first week of my passion, I bought four sumptuous waistcoats not for myself; I had no pride in them; for Dora and took to wearing straw-coloured kid gloves in the streets, and laid the foundations of all the corns I have ever had.
Behind, the same old row of balloons; in front, the same old holes in the ground. . . . But to-day peace. . . . Vane thoughtfully stirred the pale straw-coloured concoction reputed to be tea on the table in front of him. The remark Margaret had made to him on the beach was running through his mind "The new Heaven and the new Earth." Yes, but on what foundations?
Cumberland at middle age adjoins an immense calendar on which is portrayed the head of a girl in bright colours a creature with amazing quantities of straw-coloured hair. The table itself is of such size that it is said all the guests at a round-up a festival of note in these barbaric regions can be easily seated around it.
The curtain will rise on this world for you. Nobody admitted who isn't in evening dress. The jewels will dazzle you. Actresses, duchesses, all the handsomest women in Europe." "But I thought London was dark and gloomy since the war." Victor smiled and teased his small straw-coloured moustache with his thumb and middle finger. "There are a few bright spots left, thank you!"
As I made my way gradually down to Circular Quay and the ferry, some one stepped out athwart my path from a shadowy doorway, and I had a vision of straw-coloured hair, pale skin, scarlet lips, a woman's figure. 'Going home, dear? What about coming with me? Come on, de-ear! Somehow I knew all about it. Not from talk, I am sure. Possibly from reading; possibly by instinct.
She would leave school with Sophy, and I waited on the corner near the McAlery house. Poor Sophy! She was always of those who piped while others danced. In those days she had two straw-coloured pigtails, and her plain, faithful face is before me as I write. She never betrayed to me the excitement that filled her at being the accomplice of our romance. Gossip raged, of course.
He folded his arms and glared at me with his excitable, slanting brown eyes. His head was the shape of a chocolate drop, and was covered with dry, straw-coloured hair that fuzzed up about his pointed crown. He had never done more than mutter at me as I passed him, and I was surprised when he now addressed me.
The King was in ordinary evening dress, while the Queen wore a robe of straw-coloured satin, covered with superb white lace; and under the diadem of brilliants which encircled her beautiful fair hair, she looked still young, with a fresh and rounded face, whose expression was all amiability, gentleness, and wit. The music was still sounding with the enthusiastic violence of welcome.
One day, just before she left, she brought in a packet of kid gloves she had purchased, among them one pair, straw-coloured. She laid them on the table, went out for two minutes, leaving the prince in the room with the gloves. On her return, the prince and the straw-coloured gloves were gone.
She made inquiries of the landlady, who, when told that the prince had been in the room, laughed and said: "But of course he has them. You should never leave anything in the room unguarded where there is a prince." Two days after the departure of this lady, the straw-coloured gloves were produced by his highness and presented by him to a young lady whom he admired, then in the same pension.
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