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Betsy disappeared, and soon after, reappearing at the door, admitted the man, whom she ushered into a small apartment, which was redolent of tobacco, and in which sat a young man slippered and dressing-gowned, taking breakfast.
After a brief but affectionate interview with her titled hostess, Deb was soon at hers, slippered and dressing-gowned, sipping the jaded woman's stimulant, warming the damp and dismalness out of her, assuring herself confidently that she was not an old woman, and had no intention of becoming one. Certainly, when Rosalie had dressed her, she was entitled to an easy mind.
Anyhow, he wouldn't encourage it. But the sound came again, and the voice surely of Gwendolen, his very great friend, with panic in it, and breathlessness as of a voice-reft runner. He was out of bed in twenty, dressing-gowned in forty, at the window in fifty, seconds. Not a minute lost! "What's all that?... A man shot! All right, I'll come." "Oh, do! It's so dreadful.
Sponge returned, all dirtied and stained, from the chase, he found his host sitting in an arm-chair over the study fire, dressing-gowned and slippered, with a pocket-handkerchief tied about his head, shamming illness, preparatory to putting off Mr. Spraggon. To be sure, he played rather a better knife and fork at dinner than is usual with persons with that peculiar ailment; but Mr.
They were fed, washed, night-gowned and even dressing-gowned; and this was the hour when, while nurse repaired the consequences of their revolutionary conduct in the bathroom and other places, they were left to themselves.
As he went up the stairs, people were already posted on the lower stairs, that his shadow might fall upon them when he came down. So were the sick brought out and laid in the track of the Apostle who had NOT got into the good society, and had NOT made the money. Mr Dorrit, dressing-gowned and newspapered, was at his breakfast.
She is a wanton mistress, and will cuddle where her fancy chances, careless whether vice or virtue is her bedfellow; coy when most eagerly supplicated, seductive when least desired. George, steeped in crime, snuggled warmly to her until aroused by a rude shaking. Night-capped and dressing-gowned, white-faced and trembling, awful in grief Mr. Marrapit stood near him. "Get up!
Another blow followed, a strange one that M'riar could not localise, and then all the Court swam about, and vanished. What Mo saw by the light of the lamp above as he turned out of Ragstroar's front-gate was M'riar, dressing-gowned and dishevelled, clinging madly to the man he could recognise as her convict husband.
Yes; undoubtedly burglars! He switched on his light and jumped out of bed. He took a pistol from a drawer, and thus armed went to look into the matter. The dreamy peer was no poltroon. It was quite dark when he arrived on the scene of conflict, in the van of a mixed bevy of pyjamaed and dressing-gowned relations.
The quick glance he gave increased the sudden chill of his spirits. He saw Mr. Marrapit standing against the mantelshelf dressing-gowned, hands behind back, face most intensely grim; his glance shifted and he froze, for it rested upon Mrs.
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