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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Here's the jewellery I want to sell. It was my father's, and belonged to his father and grandfather." She opened her ungloved right hand to reveal a bonnet brooch of beautiful and very ancient workmanship showing the crest of the MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste.
Then, not daring to hesitate any longer, she rang the bell, and was presently joined by a French lady of polished manners Miss Carew's maid who conducted her to the boudoir, a hexagonal apartment that, Alice thought, a sultana might have envied. Lydia was there, reading. Alice noted with relief that she had not changed her dress, and that she was ungloved. Miss Goff did not enjoy the dinner.
"'Tis hell for wan, an' twice hell for two," he muttered; and then he shifted his right hand to the brake-cock and grasped the hot throttle lever with the ungloved left. And for a time the pain of the burn sufficed. It was another piece of luck, good or bad, that made Ten Mile station the special train's meeting point with the second train of empties.
She turned in her saddle, laughing, and sat looking down at him then, more gravely, at her ungloved hand which he still retained in both of his. Silence fell, and found them ready for it. For a long while they said nothing; she slipped one leg over the pommel and sat sideways, elbow on knee, chin propped in her gloved hand.
The wine was rising in waves of colour over her throat and brow, and setting her glass down she suddenly laid her ungloved hand on Odo's. "Cousin," she said in a low voice, "I could help you if you would let me." "Help me?" he said, only half-aware of her words in the warm surprise of her touch. She drew back, but with a look that seemed to leave her hand in his.
With an oppressive sense of embarrassment, Katherine went out into the hall, and confronted a short, slight young man with exceedingly tight trousers, a colored cambric tie, and a general air of being on the turf. He held a white hat in one hand, and on the other, which was ungloved, he wore a large seal ring.
The young couple drove at once to the station, where they were to take the train for New York, and wait there a day or two for Mrs. and Mr. Pasmer before they all sailed. As they drove along, Alice held Dan's wrist in the cold clutch of her trembling little ungloved hand, on which her wedding ring shone. "O dearest! let us be good!" she said. "I will try my best.
Undo the lashings, unload the load, get out the brace and bit and bore new holes, taking plenty of time, for, in such cold, there is danger of the steel bit breaking. Then, with ungloved hands, thread the sealskin thongs through the hole. The fingers freeze.
The Western girl sat with ungloved hands on the outside of the robe she evidently did not need to draw up around her. Madeline thought she had never seen such a clear-eyed, healthy, splendid girl. "Do you like to see the sun rise?" asked Florence. "Yes, I think I do," replied Madeline, thoughtfully. "Frankly, I have not seen it for years."
Her cheeks were glowing from the sparks of morning, and her ungloved hand was reaching out to meet him. He clasped it, and welcomed her with joy that he could not have simulated any more than he could have hidden. There was a tremor in his voice; a hot sweep of blood flamed in his face like a confession of his secret soul.
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