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Updated: June 4, 2025
She glanced at a tiny diamond-set watch-bracelet on her wrist "How late it is! nearly all the morning gone! I have kept you so long listening to my talk forgive me! I will run away now and leave you to think about my 'intervals' of happiness, will you? they are so few compared to yours!" "Mine?" he echoed amazedly. "Yes, indeed! yours!
The old lady paused for her effect, and I was conscious of giving her all she wanted. "Well ?" "Will you believe it? It seems she looked at her watch-bracelet and said: 'Do you gentlemen dress for dinner?
And she had such a frank, jolly countenance, not exactly pretty better than pretty. She was a little short and a little plump, and she wore a necklace round her neck, a ring on her dainty, dirty finger, and a watch-bracelet on her wrist. 'Why! she exclaimed. 'How old are you? 'How old are you? he retorted. Dogs do not give things away like that. 'I'm nineteen, she said submissively.
"But my search may bring suspicion upon me," I remarked. "It will be difficult to examine the whole wood without arousing the curiosity of somebody the keeper or the police." "I have already thought of that," she said. "I will pretend to-morrow to lose this watch-bracelet in the wood," and she held up her slim wrist to show me the little enameled watch set in her bracelet.
They were not merely beautiful because they stood for delight and indulgence, raising lovely visions of hosiers' and jewellers' shops and the night interiors of clubs and restaurants raising one clear vision of himself clasping a watch-bracelet on the soft arm of Rachel who had so excitingly smiled upon him a moment ago.
She was silly she knew she was silly. She tried to think of all the things that were still hers, the garden, the watch-bracelet, the leisure, the pretty gowns but nothing, nothing seemed of any consequence beside the fact that she had not kissed Allan good-night! It seemed the most intolerable thing that had ever happened to her.
His glance strayed off, and almost rebounded from the semi-Roman, slightly cross, and wholly self-complacent face of a stout lady in a black-and-white costume, who was reading the Strand Magazine, while her other, sleek, plump hand, freed from its black glove, and ornamented with a thick watch-bracelet, rested on her lap.
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