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Won't Aunt Plumy be superb in this plum-colored satin and immense cap?" A delightful morning was spent in adapting the faded finery of the past to the blooming beauty of the present, and time and tongues flew till the toot of a horn called them down to dinner.
They stopped by direction at a gate, and behind it was a green cluster of lilac bushes, which lined the walk to the big plum-colored house which Lionel Carvel had built. Virginia remembered that down this walk on a certain day in June, a hundred years agone, Richard Carvel had led Dorothy Manners.
A slight turn of the telescope tube brings us to the star sigma, a wide double, the smaller component of which is blue or plum-colored; magnitudes four and nine, distance 20", p. 272°. From sigma we pass to beta, a very beautiful object, of which the three-inch gives us a splendid view. Its two components are of magnitudes two and six, distance 13", p. 30°; colors, white and bluish.
Meanwhile his eyes wandered over the desolate room with its leather-covered chairs and sofas and big marble mantel bare of every ornament but another moon-faced clock a duplicate of the one at the bank and two bronze candelabra flanking each end, and then on the portraits of the dead and gone members which relieved the sombre walls one in a plum-colored coat with hair tied in a queue being no other than his own ancestor.
"Why, you see, sir, you gave me no exact answer about the plum-colored velvet inexpressibles," said Mr. Brown. Are we contemned? The Double Marriage. It was dusk when Clarence arrived at the very same inn at which, more than five years ago, he had assumed his present name. He was ushered into No. 4, and left to his meditations till bed-time. The next day he recommenced his journey.
Life in Philadelphia seemed very rich to Daniel Boone; he liked to loiter along the streets and look in at the wide gardens and the comfortable white porches, and he liked to stop and watch a city chaise drive by, with a man in a claret or plum-colored suit and a woman in a bright taffeta gown. They were almost a different race from the buckskin-clad people of the wilderness from whom he came.
Square-shouldered, too, was he, and over one shoulder hung a plum-colored cloak bordered with gold braid. His long hose were the color of his cloak, and his shoes were russet leather, with rosettes of plum, and such high heels as Nick had never seen before. His bonnet was of tawny velvet, with a chain twisted round it, fastened by a jeweled brooch through which was thrust a curly cock-feather.
The doll, beautifully dressed in the belled skirt of the eighteen-forties, wore plum-colored silk with a bodice and wide short sleeves of pale yellow and, crossed on the breast, a strip of black Spanish lace that fell to the hem of the skirt.
This time Sebastian the Goldsmith fitted him with a suit of splendid plum-colored silk and gave him a dappled horse, and again Beppo and his two attendants rode away to the palace. And this time every one knew him, and as he went up the steps into the palace all present bowed to him. The king saw him as soon as he appeared, and when he caught sight of him he burst out laughing.
The house of Jinks, sir, can right its own wrongs." "No doubt; but remember one circumstance. I myself hate O'Brallaghan with undying enmity." "How is that, sir?" "Can't you guess?" "No." "Why, he had the audacity to sell my plum-colored coat and and the rest of my suit to this Mr. Verty." "Oh yes." "Abominable conduct! only because I did not call at the very moment to try on the suit.
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