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A useless strip of white chaf oh, no, he was guiding the auto car of white chiffon or perhaps it was grenadine or tulle was tied beneath her chin, pretending to hold her bonnet in place. But you know as well as I do that the hatpins did the work. And on Mrs. James Williams's face was recorded a little library of the world's best thoughts in three volumes.
The heat of the day was over, the air was cool, the light golden, the important question of dining could be considered in comfort on enticing little chairs in the shady alleys of the Champs-Elysées or, better still, on little chairs no less enticing with little tables in front of them at the nearest café, where an apéritif was to be sipped even if it were no more deadly than a groseille or a grenadine.
What wonderful work was to be done? She was sure she didn't know. Sewing certainly wasn't in her line; she couldn't make clothes for the poor; but, then, she could give money to buy them with. Oh, yes, she was perfectly willing to do that. And then she tried to determine whether it would be well to get a new black grenadine, or whether a black silk would suit her better.
Old Grannis had drawn his chair close to the wall so close, in fact, that he could hear Miss Baker's grenadine brushing against the other side of the thin partition, at his very elbow, while she rocked gently back and forth, a cup of tea in her hands. Old Grannis's occupation was gone.
You're bughouse." Fung Wah sat there, his small, astute eyes, in a saffron face, fixed alternately upon the speakers, with an appraising grimace but half-veiled. And as he sipped his grenadine syrup and soda water, he admired his three-inch thumbnail, the token of his rise from the estate of a half-naked coolie in Quan-tung to equality with these Taipans, the whites of Tahiti.
The details always began to multiply, to abound, when once his companion was well launched they flowed forth in battalions. 'It's Pearson Harriet Pearson; but she used to call herself Grenadine wasn't that a rum appellation?
One day, she showed me what looked like a fashion-paper print of a dress-stuff a pretty oval medallion of stars on a striped grenadine background that somehow seemed familiar. 'How nice! What is it? I asked. 'Our National Flag, she replied. 'Indeed. But it doesn't look quite 'No. This is a new design for arranging the stars so that they shall be easier to count and more decorative in effect.
"Poor thing!" said Margray, when she'd taken off my bonnet and looked at the fashion of my frock, "but you're sorely altered. Never fret, it's worth no tear; she counted much on your likely looks, though, you never told us the accident took them." "I thought you'd know, Margray." "Oh, for sure, there's many escapes. And this is grenadine? I'd rather have the old mohair.
I had been introduced to a Doctor Funk by Count Polonsky, who told me it was made of a portion of absinthe, a dash of grenadine, a syrup of the pomegranate fruit, the juice of two limes, and half a pint of siphon water. Dr. Funk of Samoa, who had been a physician to Robert Louis Stevenson, had left the receipt for the concoction when he was a guest of the club.
"I'm quite done up," remarked Helene, as she leaned against the dining-room door. She fanned her face, flushed with her exertions in the dance. Her bosom rose and fell beneath the transparent grenadine of her bodice. And she was still conscious of Henri's breath beating on her shoulders; he was still close to her ever behind her.
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