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The new arrival bent her neck until Malachi had relieved her of the long hooded cloak, gave a quick stamp with her little feet as she shook out her balloon skirts, and settled herself on the hall-settee while Malachi unwound the white worsted "nubia" from her aristocratic throat.
Fiske, as she prepared to obey; while Sally, seeing that her public exhibition of sorrow and sympathy could be indulged but an instant longer, unwound herself for a violent paroxysm, blurting between stops: 'If he'd ony've gone to his last bed comfortable!... If he'd ony 've been that decent as not for to go to his last bed with his clothes on! ... If he'd ony've had a comfortable sheet!... It makes a woman feel cold to think of him full dressed there, as if he was goin' to be a soldier on the Day o' Judgement!
That night he only unwound it from his throat to fold it and lay it on his pillow that his cheek might rest upon it while he slept slept the sweetest sleep that ever visited his eyes. Ah, poor, pale sleeper! this was the last happy night he was destined to have for many weeks and months. In the morning he arose early as usual to hasten to school and to Claudia.
I was more than half persuaded, and yet, when the applause had ceased, the dancers unwound themselves, and the low rumble of a thousand restless feet rang on the marble pavement below, I found voice sufficient to ask the all-important question, "But what is the nature of this engagement?" To which he answered, "Oh, we're going down the coast for a few days, you and I, and Alf and Croesus.
Then, following her lover's injunctions, she wrapped herself in a cashmere shawl, which Roland had brought her from the battlefield of the Pyramids, and which he had unwound from the head of a chieftain whom he had killed.
She unwound the scarf from her head and neck, and hung up her cap and cloak like a man, but she gave her hair a little touch of feminine care, and came forward with both palms pressed to her burning cheeks. "Did you suffer, child?" asked Mrs. Allen. "No; I enjoyed it." Herman looked at Stacey. "I believe on my life she did." "Oh, it's fun.
The poor plump little woman was trembling from head to foot. "It was a most unusual experience," she told me as I unwound her. "Probably extremely unifying to the soul-forces and all that, as Miss Browne says, but for the moment unsettling. Is my helmet on straight, dear? I think it is a little severe for my type of face, don't you?
I recall her coming in midwinter from the frozen village where she lived. I remember, as if it were but last winter, the immense shawls and wraps which we unwound from about her person, her voluminous brown sack coat in which there was room for three of us at a time, and at last the tight clasp of her long arms, and her fresh, cold cheeks on ours.
To be sure, Popova had received explicit and positive instructions concerning her government. But Popova pshaw! She unwound her veil and removed her head-gear and sat bareheaded by the car-window, greedily welcoming each new picture that swung into view.
These he carefully untied and unwound. Then he unwrapped the robes and blankets and when he uncovered the face, he saw, as he had expected to, the face of his lost love, Pretty Feather. As he sat gazing on her beautiful young face, his heart ached for his poor friend.
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