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Updated: June 19, 2025
She wore a black walking-skirt, a black leather jacket, and a three-cornered black hat, and Frank involuntarily compared this very aristocratic-looking young person with the little girl in the short-waisted frocks he had known, so many years ago, it seemed, in North Carolina. In silence they went down the driveway to the beach road, along the path to the cliffs.
I have a short walking-skirt, and I can wear that. Please let me have the bicycle." Mrs. Easterfield made Olive sit down and she talked to her, but there was no changing the girl's determination to go to her uncle, to go alone, and to go immediately. Olive's Bicycle Trip.
And now, I want to thank you again, with all my heart. Here," she reached into the pocket of her walking-skirt, "here is something for your trouble." Two double-eagles lay on her open palm. Fong Wu frowned at them. "I take no money," he said, a trifle gruffly. And as she got into the cart, he closed the door of his home behind him. It was a week before Mrs.
It was Evelyn who rose first and came forward, without, so far as Philip could see, the least embarrassment of recognition. "Mr. Burnett? Mamma will be here in a moment. This is our friend, Miss McDonald." The girl's morning costume was very simple, and in her short walking-skirt she seemed younger even than in the city.
"Now march out, single file, as agreed," resumed the Black Monk of Asia, his voice trembling a little with suppressed emotion of some sort. The girls started to move out of the enclosure single file, Grace leading the procession, when a gust of wind blew the robe of the leading monk apart, disclosing a navy blue serge walking-skirt.
"Very pleasant, George," she said clearly. "But what I knew she meant, and what she knew that I knew she meant, was that my walking-skirt is an inch too long and my sleeves are old style, and your coat, poor dear, is beginning to look shiny in the back." "Why what how " began Mr. Willoughby helplessly; then he shook his head and gave it up. He Had Faith in the Doctor
First she exchanged her walking-skirt, her prim shirtwaist and jacket, for a rose-pink wrapper which she furtively brought out of a closet. It was a very elaborate wrapper, all fluffy lace and ruffles and bows, and it had cost Eliza a sum which she strove desperately to forget.
She had been forced to buy herself that pair of boots and a walking-skirt, and the pearl necklace at the pawnbrokers' had yielded very disappointingly. And, also, she wanted to borrow that money. It did seem in so many ways exactly what Ramage said it was the sensible thing to do. There it was to be borrowed.
There was nothing countrified in her dress, which was frankly conventional; the short walking-skirt had as sharp a slant in front as her dinner-gown would have had, and he wore his knickerbockers it was then the now-faded hour of knickerbockers with an air of going out golfing in the suburbs.
From the terrace one saw miles of valley and hills, and villages strung on a rambling river. The valley was a golden bowl filled with the peace of afternoon; a world of sun and listening woods. On the terrace waited a woman of thirty-five, of clever face a bit worn at the edges, carefully coiffed hair, and careless white blouse with a tweed walking-skirt.
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