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Her skirt was unpinned, a mauve bow adorned her throat, a scarf of some gauzy material, also mauve, floated around her neck. She was wearing a hat with a wing, which he was guiltily conscious of having once admired, and which she attempted, in an airy but exceedingly unconvincing fashion, to explain. "Got to go up the street directly," she said, jerkily. "What is it?"
She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking. "You must be frozen," she went on, fixing lustreless eyes on him. He drew a step nearer. "How did you know I was here?"
"That you are even resolved to give me cause to look more so," added I. "Exactly," said she, "for here, now, I reinstate you among my true and faithful admirers. Kneel down, Sir Knight in token of which you will wear this scarf " A sudden start which the donna gave at these words brought me to my feet. She was pale as death and trembling. "What means this?" said I. "What has happened?"
And Marian laid off her straw bonnet and muslin scarf and sat down and tried to eat, for affectionate eyes had already noticed the trouble of her countenance, and were watching her now with anxiety. "You do not seem to have an appetite, dear; what is the matter?" asked Edith. "I am not very well," said Marian, rising and leaving the table, and refraining with difficulty from bursting into tears.
A thick blanket with a hole cut for the head, so as to make a cloak by day, a cover by night will be carried, rolled up over one shoulder like a scarf; and each man should carry a light, waterproof coat. "I do not propose to take even tents d'abri.
"Here," said Madame De Lacy, untying a lace scarf from her neck, "take this." Kate took the scarf, and while Ranald held the arm in place she deftly made it into a sling. "There," said the lieutenant, "that feels quite comfortable. Now let's go." "Come, Maimie, I'll carry you up the hill," said Harry. "No," said Ranald, decidedly, "she will go in the canoe. That will be easier."
"See you down to the boat, of course, my dear." A very few minutes later the Doctor's wife was standing on the banks of the river watching the Resident's handsomely fitted sampan not his official dragon-boat being punted by two sturdy men up the glistening waters, Minnie turning from time to time to wave her hand, and lastly her scarf, just as they disappeared.
She wore a dress he had seen but twice before and then on great occasions. It had been a birthday present from her parents. It was a red, pleated dress. Accordion silk, the women called it. About Natalie's shoulders was a white, filmy scarf. For the first time in her life her hair was loosely piled upon her head. Through it and over it ran a bright ribbon.
The muskets of the escort were turned upon her, and a volley was fired at the balcony. She started back at the shock, and a long gush of blood down her white robe showed that she had been wounded. But she again waved the scarf, and again uttered the loyal cry. Successive shots were fired at her by the monsters beneath; but she still stood.
One night in midsummer we stepped across from the Grand Hôtel to the opera without even a scarf for a wrap, and the woman was so disappointed that we were handed from one attendant to another some half dozen times as "three ladies without wraps." And the next one would look us over from head to foot and repeat the words, "Three ladies without wraps," until we laughed in their faces.
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