The august personage in purple paused at sight of the slender, blue-frocked figure, and raising a gold-mounted lorgnette to her eyes deliberately inspected it.
Take my lorgnette that lies behind you, part the leaves where the green grapes hang thickest, look up at the little window in the shadowy angle of the low roof opposite, and tell me what you see.
As she paused, Manuel flung down the lorgnette and was striding past her with ireful impetuosity, but the white arms took him captive, adding another figure to the picture framed by the green arch as she whispered decisively, "No farther!
The lorgnettewould have passed all her more recent friends--those made with only its inspiration as a guide.
The memory of this lorgnette operated with Althea as a sort of social standard; it typified delicacy, dignity, deliberation, a scrupulous regard for the claims of heredity, and a scrupulous avoidance of uncertain or all too certain types.
As the jingle came up to them, Lady Gridborough put up her lorgnette and surveyed them, "Why, bless me!
La femme est la compagne de l'homme," * announced Prince Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs.
I directed mylorgnette at her, and observed that she smiled at his glance and that my insolent lorgnette made her downright angry.
In the morning, when I awake, I sit by my window and direct my lorgnette at her balcony.
Victor, and, not allowing her to correct her mistake, he took the lorgnetteaway from her.
Victor wiped the lorgnette and put it back into his pocket.
Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnetteand Why She Got It Good.
That is a minor detail," the lady with the lorgnette interrupted.
Well," said the owner of the lorgnette then, "what do you think about it?
You are quite right," was Lady Maria's reply, as she held up her lorgnette and watched the cart spin down the avenue.
Lady Maria indulged in the familiar chuckle and put up her lorgnette to examine her again.
She lifted her gold lorgnette and looked Emily well over.
Lady Maria put up her lorgnette and looked at her protégée with an interest which bordered on affection, it was so enjoyable to her epicurean old mind.
She talked a great deal and asked disconnected questions, forgetting next moment what she had asked; then she dropped her lorgnette in the crush.
She glanced at him and turned pale, then glanced again with horror, unable to believe her eyes, and tightly gripped the fan and the lorgnette in her hands, evidently struggling with herself not to faint.
Anna Sergeyevna looked through her lorgnette at the steamer and the passengers as though looking for acquaintances, and when she turned to Gurov her eyes were shining.
She used the lorgnette steadily, but at one moment she cried out: "He has come down two steps!
From there she watched through a lorgnette the dangerous progress of the King.
Mrs. Todd again, and closed her lorgnettewith a disappointed snap.
The parent put up her lorgnette to study her daughter's fair, dissatisfied face.
Dressed as if for a court ball at Versailles and holding his lorgnette a few inches from his nose, Osterbridge Hawsey remained elegantly aloof from anything so degrading as hard work.
Once more Aunty levels her lorgnette and gives him the cold, curious look over.
The little countess lifted her gold-rimmed lorgnette to her eyes, and read her mother's letter.
Mrs. Bradford started to make an abject apology, but the sight of Aunt Phoebe sitting in the snowdrift with her lorgnette was too much for her and she went off into a peal of laughter, in which Hinpoha joined gleefully.
She sat bolt upright in the snow and adjusted her lorgnette to see if by any chance her grandniece could be one of those rowdy children.
Say, Jim, did you ever get right squarely in range of both barrels of an honest-for-God lorgnette with about a thousand dollars worth of dry goods and a pinch of brains behind it?
Lyla waited until my outstretched hand was within reaching distance, and then she pulled a lorgnetteon me.
I found Lady Enterdean peering about with herlorgnette fixed to her eyes, apparently searching for something.
She raised herlorgnette and looked over the side of the box.
What mattered it to him now that the gold lorgnette of old Baroness Kniebreche was turned upon him so long with such an unnecessary stare, and then let drop with a movement which only too plainly said, "That was worth the effort!
And that is not a matter for jest," said Mieting, as she related that evening the experiences of the session; "I would rather face the lorgnette of Baroness Kniebreche.
Carla, looking after him over her shoulder with her lorgnette as he hastened out.
She lifted her lorgnette deliberately and gazed toward the piano, "Who is that playing?
And Mrs. Deford stopped fanning long enough to put her lorgnette to her eyes and look at her latest visitor critically.
Mrs. Deford turned and looked at Miss Puss, her lorgnette at a withering angle.
Mrs. Crawford peered through her lorgnette at the drawing.
