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She had the long, almond-shaped eyes of the Egyptian, and her hair, which she wore unconventionally in a picturesque fashion reminiscent of the harem, was inclined to be "fuzzy," but gleamed with coppery tints where the light touched its waves. She wore a cloak of purple velvet having a hooded collar of white fox fur; it fastened with golden cords.
They were less near to each other, it seemed, after a year of constant meeting, than in the times when, personally all but strangers, they had corresponded so frankly and unconventionally. Of course he came to the house for her sake; it could not but be so; yet at times he seemed to pay so little attention to her.
At length the rain drove them in and they stood in the drawing-room with anxious faces, while two servants, under directions from Carl, searched the house for Goldie. "If you please'm," stammered the housemaid, rushing rather unconventionally into the drawing-room, "cook says she thinks Goldie must be on the roof, in the vane." "On the roof in the vane?" exclaimed Mrs Ebag, pale. "In the vane?"
Braybrooke raised his eyebrows. "Know her? How should I not know her when I am constantly running over to Paris?" "Then I suppose she's very much 'in it' there?" "Yes. She is criticized, of course. She lives very unconventionally, although Fanny Cronin is always officially with her." "Fanny Cronin?" "Her dame de compagnie." "Oh, the lady who reads Paul Bourget!" "I believe she does.
I was conscientious about it tried tried to make every garden better than the last. But I was a young woman, unconventionally living alone, and by degrees the handicap of my sex was brought home to me. I did not feel the pressure at first, and then I am ashamed to say it had in it an element of excitement, a sense of power. The poison was at work. I was amused.
He was mortified that Miss Bannister should have been treated with such apparent disrespect, and he began to apologize for his sister. "Now, please stop, Mr. Haverley," interrupted Dora. "I am so glad to have her act so freely and unconventionally with me, as if we had always been friends.
A covert smile flitted across Warren's pale face, as Shirley unconventionally indulged in several semi-polite yawns, nodding a bit, as well. Helene accepted glass after glass of wine, thoughtfully poured out by her host. And as thoughtfully, did she pour it into the flower vases when his back was turned: she matched the other girls' acute transports of vinous joy without an error.
Where some people would find only neighbours, Ann's spontaneous, warm-hearted nature discovered friends. Brian Tempest already counted as one, and her acquaintance with Cara Hilyard, begun so unconventionally, was rapidly deepening into a pleasant intimacy. She had discarded her original theory that some long-ago romance linked Eliot Coventry and Mrs. Hilyard together.
The floor was uncarpeted, the window uncurtained, the room was almost dark; but a red-glow of fire light served to show a large writing table strewn with papers, and walls literally lined with books; also on the hearth-rug a little figure curled up in the most unconventionally comfortable attitude, dividing her attention between making toast and fondling a loud-purring cat.
Up the path they came, talking, laughing, shifting like a pattern in a kaleidoscope, gay, handsome, sophisticated, modishly dressed, unconventionally mannered, yet showing, most of them, the traces of that youthful ennui so often betrayed in these modern days by those who of all the world should feel it least.
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