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Updated: May 28, 2025
The consul-general's wife sent a startled glance at Elsa, who spun her sunshade to lighten the tension of her nerves. "He confessed frankly to me this morning that he is a fugitive from justice. He wishes to return to America. He recounted the circumstances of your meeting. To me the story appeared truthful enough.
From earliest dawn lookouts had been stationed on top of the adjutant's office at the south, and the hospital at the north edge of the parade, Bucketts having built for them a little wooden platform, with bench, shelf and sunshade, and there, with signal-service glasses, they scoured the barren wilds in every direction for sign of coming friend or foe.
She went out into the hall, got her sunshade, and left the house. She still had her work at the bank; the progress of liquidation was slow. Tasper Britt, from his office window, saw her coming. She wore no hat. The parasol framed the face that was still glowing after her battle for the sanctity of her love.
Was ever man so unfortunate, and so unlucky? But for the contretemps concerning that wretched sunshade, he would now have been a hopeful, and almost a triumphant, lover. Now life was all altered for him!
"Father may remain here a long time, so long that we may not get to see much of Europe, and of course, you can't wait here for us." "Now listen, Lucy. You are Europe to me. I believe you are the whole world." She did not turn from him, though she looked down to the grass where the point of her sunshade now rested. Her face was diffused with color.
Jean-les-Flots would throw any one to romance. He walked into the dining room. At the far end with her back to him sat the lady. She wore a white coat embroidered with black, a white skirt, a white hat with a white lace veil. On the chair beside her lay a Holland sunshade lined with green. It was he thought, deplorable, and indicated yellow spectacles.
She was conscious of the ill-chosen word that still reverberated between them, and the unwonted sense of having blundered made her, for the moment, less completely mistress of herself. "Ah, you'll see farther presently " She rose again, unfurling her lace sunshade, as if to give a touch of definiteness to her action.
Of course she wore gloves, white ones, stained at the fastenings with iron-mould, and in one hand she carried a very dashed-looking sunshade which she referred to as her "perishall." Beryl, sitting in the window, fanning her freshly-washed hair, thought she had never seen such a guy.
Pendleton had seen many of these ladies the day before, she stopped for a sympathetic chat with each one of them, while Virginia, standing a little apart, patiently prodded the cinders of the walk with the end of her sunshade.
She was a little woman, stoutish indeed, stout; puffy red cheeks; a too remarkable white cotton blouse; and a crimson skirt that hung unevenly; grey cotton gloves; a green sunshade; on the top of all this the black hat with red roses. The photograph in Leek's pocket-book must have been taken in the past. She looked quite forty-five, whereas the photograph indicated thirty-nine and a fraction.
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