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Updated: June 16, 2025
Truth blinding, white-hot truth burst in upon him. "Mother," he said and he stood up, suddenly robust, virile, alert "mother, let's go home." Mechanically she began to unpin the looped-back skirt. "When?" "Now." "But, Hosey! Pinky this flat until June " "Now! Unless you want to stay. Unless you like it here in this this make-believe, double-barrelled, duplex do-funny of a studio thing.
Please 'sh, Aunt Olivia, or you'll wake her up!" the child had whispered, in an agony. "Oh, you're not agoing to turn her back to a nightgown? Don't unpin her, Aunt Olivia it will kill her! I'll name her after you if you'll let her stay." "Get up and take your clothes off."
His sister-in-law came round to the other side of the fire with her cup of tea in her hand, holding it out at arm's-length, so that she might not spill it on her dress, and uttering little cries of alarm. She placed the cup on the mantel-shelf and begun to unpin her veil and pull off her gloves, looking meanwhile at Newman.
He was an honest man, too, or as honest as is practicable for a man in business. Dwyer was tickled to see Casey again. Casey was a good fellow, and he never needed his memory jogged when he owed a man. He paid before he was asked to pay, and that was enough to make any merchant love him. He watched Casey unpin his vest pocket and remove the check, and he was not too eager to inspect it. "Good?
And every morning, after Mevrouw Kink had brought in coffee, snorting whenever Trudi's hair caught her virtuous eye, or whenever the German drummer's widow struck her as being more foreign of manners and appearance than usual, Lady Hannah would call for her boots, attire herself as for a promenade outdoors, lift the corner of a blind, steal a glance at the seething, stenching single street of Tweipans between the slats of the green shutters, and unpin her veil and take off her hat without a word....
Truth blinding, white-hot truth burst in upon him. "Mother," he said and he stood up, suddenly robust, virile, alert "mother, let's go home." Mechanically she began to unpin the looped-back skirt. "When?" "Now." "But, Hosey! Pinky this flat until June " "Now! Unless you want to stay. Unless you like it here in this this make-believe, double-barreled, duplex do-funny of a studio thing.
"Well, Ben, are you satisfied?" asked Miss Celia, as she stayed a moment to unpin the remains of his gauzy scarf and tunic. "Yes'm, thank you, it was tip-top." "But you look rather sober. Are you tired, or is it because you don't want to take these trappings off and be plain Ben again?" she said, looking down into his face as he lifted it for her to free him from his gilded collar.
I have to pin myself together elaborately, and whenever I want to get anything out of my pocket I have cautiously to unpin myself, with the dread of falling to pieces before my eyes. For my food, I allowance myself, in order to eke out as long as possible my resources. I dine and breakfast at a second-class restaurant.
'What does it mean? said Laura, speaking huskily, with her head bent over the bronze insect. 'What can it mean? she asked again, and looked up to meet a covert answer. 'Unpin it. Vittoria raised her arms as if she felt the thing to be enveloping her.
Oh, dear me! have you anything as pretty as this in Ireland?" "No," said Nora fiercely "no." She left the window, turned back, and began to unpin her hat. "You look as if you did not care for your room." "It is a very, very pretty room," said Nora, "and the view is very, very pretty, but I am tired to-night. I did not know it; but I am. I should like to go to bed soon."
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