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She gave me a startled glance and her face blanched. I thought she was going to break down again, but suddenly I saw her raise her chin defiantly and an angry sparkle come to her eyes. She snapped shut her vanity-bag and marched toward the jury room like a soldier, sentenced to be shot, yet determined to die bravely. It was only after she had left that I began to think about my own testimony.
I imagine that a pickpocket, proud of his light fingers, must feel a sort of indignation with the careless woman who leaves in a cab a vanity-bag with all her jewels in it. Nature had made him a butt, but had denied him insensibility. He writhed under the jokes, practical and otherwise, which were perpetually made at his expense, and yet never ceased, it seemed wilfully, to expose himself to them.
Opening it, he showed her the tiny tube reposing in pink cotton wool. "It is a little present for somebody, eh?" he asked with a sinister laugh. "Perhaps," replied the girl as she took it and placed it carefully in the black silk vanity-bag she was carrying. "You have already received instructions through another channel?" inquired Rasputin. "I have, O Father," was her reply.
The Southern girl blinked like an owl at the morning sunshine out on the boardwalk. The Cherub, whose triumphant youth had brought her almost fresh through a sleepless night, contributed the only remark made during the interval of waiting for the meal. "The fascination of a thtage life! Why girls leave home!" She looked at her reflection in the little mirror of her vanity-bag.
Poor woman! it cost her many a pang to send what must find its way into the vanity-bag of 'that creature! Soames, hearing of it, shook his head. They were not dealing with a Forsyte, reasonably tenacious of his purpose. It was very risky without knowing how the land lay out there. Still, it would look well with the Court; and he would see that Dreamer brought it out.
Poor woman! it cost her many a pang to send what must find its way into the vanity-bag of 'that creature! Soames, hearing of it, shook his head. They were not dealing with a Forsyte, reasonably tenacious of his purpose. It was very risky without knowing how the land lay out there. Still, it would look well with the Court; and he would see that Dreamer brought it out.
A big black picture hat, with a flower garden and parts of an aviary on top but what's the use of going over Isaiah's list? "Everything but the nose jewels," said Carpenter, "and they may be in fashion next week." "How about the glasses?" put in Rosythe, entering into the fun. "Oh, shucks!" said I, protecting my friend. "Turn out the contents of your vanity-bag, Mary."
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