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She had intended to bring their bathing things in a bundle, but now she put them aside. She sighed and foresaw a difficult day ahead of her. "Dear Mrs. Cole, on a hot day how can you endure the smells of a farm... such a charming farm, too, with all its cows and pigs, but in this weather... Charlotte darling, you don't feel the heat? No? Hold your sun-shade a little more to the right, love.
How many travellers in the South recall with infinite pleasure their host’s tall commanding figure, his snowy drooping whiskers, the sun-shade that was rarely out of his hand, his old-fashioned courteous manners, and his famous family of cats, whereof the coal-black Nerone was the prime favourite, a feline monster almost as tyrannical as his Imperial namesake of evil reputation.
Manisty watched her as she turned into the garden. The shadows of the ilex-avenue chequered her straw bonnet, her prim black cape, her white skirt. There had been no meddling of freakish hands with her dark hair this morning. It was tightly plaited at the back of her head. Her plain sun-shade, her black kid gloves were neatness itself middle-class, sabbatical neatness.
The best covering for the head, when he is out and about, is a loose-fitting straw hat, which will allow the perspiration to escape. It should have a broad rim, to screen the eyes. A sun-shade, that is to say, a sea-side hat a hat made of cotton with a wide brim to keep off the sun, is also an excellent hat for a child; it is very light, and allows a free escape of the perspiration.
Then she said, with a charming air of pretended impatience, full of grace and coquetry, "Come, why don't you look at our dear valley?" She turned, held her white silk sun-shade over our heads and drew Jacques closely to her side.
The date and the palm lifted themselves as a screen or as a sun-shade over them. The gray pyramids looked like broken shadows in the clear air and the far-off desert, where the ostrich wheels his rapid flight, and the lion, with his subtle eyes, gazes at the marble sphinx which lies half buried in sand.
Sir Roger is reading the Times in our balcony, and I am strolling along the dazzling streets by myself. What can equal the white glare of a foreign town? I am strolling along by myself under a big sun-shade. My progress is slow, as my nose has a disposition to flatten itself against every shop-window saving, perhaps, the cigar ones. A grave problem is engaging my mind.
When she went out Madame Soudry carried a parasol of the true eighteenth-century style; that is to say, a tall cane at the end of which opened a green sun-shade with a green fringe. When she walked about the terrace a stranger on the high-road, seeing her from afar, might have thought her one of Watteau's dames.
"I hear you are going to Italy when you are strong enough to travel?" she observed, at last. "That is what they advise." "You will be away for some time?" "I suppose so." And again she sat silent for a little while, pulling at the fringe of her rose-lined sun-shade.
They waited some time for Severne and his sun-shade. At last Vizard looked at his watch, and said they had only five minutes to spare. "Come down, and look after him. He must be somewhere about." They went down and looked for him all over the Platz. He was not to be seen. At last Vizard took out his watch, and said, "It is some misunderstanding: we can't wait any longer."
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