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Everything in the room, from the elegant little couch resting on lions' claws, to the delicately-carved ivory combs on the toilet-table, proved that the outward adornments of life had possessed much charm for the former owner of these rooms.
'Put my wig on, said Madame Bonanni to the cadaverous maid, and she sat down in front of the toilet-table. 'We must talk business at once, she continued, suddenly speaking with the utmost calm. 'The appointment is at my house, at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, Schreiermeyer. Miss Donne will sing for us. Bring a pianist and the Minister of Fine Arts if you can get him.
The snowy drapery of its bed and toilet-table, its wide-open casements giving glimpses of garden, lawn, and shrubbery, and the beautiful hills beyond, looked very inviting. There were vases of fresh flowers too, on mantel and bureau, and green vines peeping in at the windows. It seemed a haven of rest after the long, fatiguing journey.
There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted.
Sitting before the toilet-table, her reflection in the great, oval mirror pleased her. "Which shall I wear?" "That depends upon the length of time madame proposes to stay here. The black dress might be worn on several occasions with impunity. The peacock brocade, the eau de Nil, the crocus yellow, but once twice at the uttermost. They are ravishing costumes, but wanting in repose.
Not at the toilet-table of the fair, Where vanity, as if before an idol, bows, And often breathes a warmer prayer Than when to heaven it pays its vows; And not behind the curtain's cunning veil, Where the world's eye is hid by cheating night, And glowing flames the hearts assail, That seemed but chilly in the light,
He watches her through the door, and settles into a chair as the men redistribute themselves. CAPT. G. Now, if there is any Power who looks after this world, will He kindly tell me what I have done? And are not afraid with any amazement. Marriage service. SCENE.-A bachelor's bedroom toilet-table arranged with unnatural neatness. CAPTAIN GADSBY asleep and snoring heavily.
The valise was lying there open. Upon the toilet-table was a pocket-book, and hanging from the screw of the looking-glass was his watch. His riding whip and gloves and top-boots were lying in different places. As Mrs.
She put both her hands on his shoulders and said as she kissed his lips: "Bles, almost thou persuadest me to be a fool. Now go." Thirty "I never realized before just what a lie meant," said Zora. The paper in Mrs. Vanderpool's hands fell quickly to her lap, and she gazed across the toilet-table. As she gazed that odd mirage of other days haunted her again.
You will be happy here with the uncle. Yes! he's like you, you will suit each other! For me, it would be death in two weeks; yet he is noble, he has the grand air. Très chère, I have left for you the bracelet with the rubies; it is on your toilet-table. You admired it, it was yours from that moment, but I waited, for I knew that one day we must part.
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