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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Where are you girls?" There was nothing for it but to come forth from their retreat. It was impossible to stay hidden forever. Quenrede issued as nonchalantly as she could, with her hair tucked under her tam-o'-shanter, and her gloves on. She bowed instead of shaking hands when Athelstane introduced Mr.
'You are satisfied? said Bill, rolling her golden curls in her Tam-o'-Shanter cap. 'I am not merely satisfied, William, Paul responded. 'Words fail me to express my gratitude. 'Don't you begin to chaff me, said Bill. 'If you do, I shan't make the bargain I was going to. 'I assure you, said Paul, 'that I was never more serious in my life.
Here for years he had been working day and night; running the gauntlet of successive juries and hanging committees, with his best things rejected or skied until his Tam-o'-Shanter girl made a hit; worrying, hoping against hope, racking his brain as to how and when and where he would find the path which would lead him to commercial success a difficult task for one too proud to beg for favors and too independent to seek another's aid and here, out of the clear sky, had come this audacious Bohemienne, the pet of foyer and studio a woman who presented the greatest number of contrasts to the things he held most dear in womankind and with a single stroke had cleared the way to success for him.
The yellowish tones of his worn fustian suit and a red Tam-o'-Shanter cap completed the general effect of brilliancy and, as it were, foreignness. Having finished his inspection of his water-mill, he scrambled across to the other side of the stream so as to be well out of his sister's way, and, taking out the volume which was stretching his pocket, he began to read it.
Already made up and lying on the floor of the wardrobe was another parcel, very much bigger, rolled in dark green baize which might have been a small table cover. From a shelf Barrie snatched a tam-o'-shanter, also a dark green in colour. Absent-mindedly she pulled it over her head, and the green brightened the copper red of her hair.
Indeed, Rose, Frederic, and Gregoire also ended by singing the ballad, which rang out amid the serene, far-spreading countryside like the finest music in the world. * The beret is the Pyreneean tam-o'-shanter. Then, at a short distance in the rear, came the chariot, the good old family wagon, which was now crowded.
She wore a tam-o'-shanter, and I thought her brown hair the prettiest shade of brown I had ever seen. And from that single experience of half an hour I have ever since been convinced of the reality of love at first sight. All too soon the aunt and Haydee departed. As we passed out, at the back of the hall a woman recognised me with her eyes, arose, and followed me. I shall not describe her.
It did gladden the heart of one who viewed it that morning from the summit of the gently-curving Tamfield Hill Robert McIntyre stood with his elbows upon a gate-rail, his Tam-o'-Shanter hat over his eyes, and a short briar-root pipe in his mouth, looking slowly about him, with the absorbed air of one who breathes his fill of Nature.
As soon as I heard the heavy door close on him finally, I made a bolt for my shrimping-net and tam-o'-shanter and was just going to slip out, when I saw that my brother had left behind him one coin that lay gleaming on the long bench by the window.
It looked as if they must have been hard up for speakers to-day, for two of them were younger even than Miss Claxton of the tam-o'-shanter. One of them couldn't be more than nineteen. 'How dreadful to put such very young girls up there to be stared at by all these louts! 'Oh, yes, 'm, quite 'orrid, agreed the maid, but with the air of 'What can you expect of persons so low?
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