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I believe it was not recalled by either of us till after Gertrude Fellows came. It was on a Monday and in a drizzly storm that I brought her from the station. She was a thin, cold, phantom-like woman, shrouded in water-proofs and green barège veils. Why is it that homely women always wear green barège veils?
It was a museum of sartorial curiosities seedy and ripped broadcloth coats, vests, and pants, flannel mining-shirts of gay colors and of different degrees of wear and tear, linen shirts that looked like battle-flags that had been through the war, and old shoes and boots of all sorts, from the high rubber water-proofs used by miners to the ragged slippers that had adorned the feet of the lonely single parsons whose names are written above.
The suggestion proved a wise one, for before they emerged from the shelter of the woods it was raining smartly, and the girls were glad of their water-proofs and umbrellas. Lionel, with hands in pockets, strode on, disdaining what he was pleased to call "a little local shower." "You should see how it pours in Colorado," he remarked. "That's worth calling rain! Immense!
Leopold turned at that moment, and discovered a bundle of shawls and water-proofs emerging from the companion-way. "Leopold Bennington! I'm glad to see you!" exclaimed the bundle, in a voice which the young pilot promptly identified as that of Miss Rosabel Hamilton. "Thank you, Miss Hamilton.
There was a great looking for umbrellas and water-proofs. Then it appeared that Elizabeth Eliza had left hers, after all, though she had gone back for it twice. Mr. Peterkin knew he had not forgotten his umbrella, because he had put the whole umbrella-stand into the wagon, and it had been brought up the hill, but it proved to hold only the family canes!
She refused proffers of umbrellas and water-proofs, laughingly saying that she could not reach home much wetter than she was, and disappeared. "Our parson's wife, Miss Jelliffe," explained Dr. Grant, "and the nearest thing to a blessing that Sweetapple Cove has ever known, I should say." "She must be," I assented. "She is perfectly charming."
I am twenty-five, nearly twenty-six, and am not to be whisked about thus." Everybody went everywhere on horseback in the High Valley, and the gingham riding-skirts and wide-brimmed hats hung always on the antlers, ready to hand, beside water-proofs and top-coats.
"Ye-es," said Sarah; "it's very splendid, only isn't it a little wet? It's dropping right on my cheek." "Oh, that's nothing why, here I can put my hand right down into a puddle of water. It's just like being at sea." "I know it. Are people at sea always so cold?" "Why, I'm not cold. Only we might as well wear our water-proofs. The leaves are a little damp."
Now, mother!" "But supposing it rains?" suggested Mrs. Breynton. "Oh, we'll take our water-proofs." "The tent will be dry enough," put in Tom, bringing in his forces like a good soldier, now he was fairly enlisted. "But if you catch cold and get sick, my dear; Tom won't want to cut short his excursion to bring you home." "There's Mr.
At dinner the guests appeared modestly dressed, and it would have been difficult to identify in them the bundles of water-proofs, shawls, and overcoats which had landed at the wharf. Leopold had put on a "biled shirt," as he called it, and dressed himself in his best clothes. To him was assigned the duty of waiting upon Mr. Hamilton and his family.
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