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Updated: May 4, 2025
Naturally his feet carried him in the direction of the bridge, whither he had gone on the previous evening and where amid an eager press of thoughts he had waited and watched for his love. When he got there he sat down on the parapet and looked to the north. He saw the wimples of the lazy Grannoch Lane winding dimly through their white lily beds.
No green demons leaped these sullen ten-foot barricades, and no forwandered sea-serpent threw oozy wimples on the green-sward or hissed at us between the rusty bars. It was, at first, decidedly disappointing. We ordered each other to stop breathing so loudly, after our burst of running.
O'Meagher, taking up his list and his pencil. "I've been expecting you." "Ah, yes, to be sure, of course. I was going to propose a er settlement." "A what?" says Mr. O'Meagher sharply. Mr. Wimples mops his brow.
And the only gay note, amidst all the black cassocks and the threadbare garments of the poor, never of any precise shade of colour, was supplied by the smiling whiteness of the Little Sisters of the Assumption, all bright and active in their snowy coifs, wimples, and aprons. When Pierre at last reached the cantine van near the middle of the train, he found it already besieged.
And yet, as Mr. Wimples, though on the threshold of great dignity and power, walks into Mr. O'Meagher's presence, he find himself all of a tremble, and glows and chills chase each other up and down his spinal column. "Ah, Mr. O'Meagher," he says, "good-morning! Good-morning! Happy to see you so er well. Charming day, so warm for the er season." "Yes," says Mr. O'Meagher, "so it be."
"I received your notification of the high er honor, you propose to confer on me." "Yes," says Mr. O'Meagher, "you're the man for the place." "So kind of you to er say so. You mentioned that the er assessment was " "Twenty thousand dollars," says Mr. O'Meagher, with great promptness. "Just so," says Mr. Wimples, "just so." "And you've called to pay it," says Mr.
Save for the "nose jewels," the complaining and exhaustive list of the prophet Isaiah might serve as well for New England as for Judah and Jerusalem: "their cauls and their round tires like moons; the chains and the bracelets and the mufflers; the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings; the rings and nose jewels; the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins; the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods and the veils."
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