So I thought, to pay for the circus and a few other things, I ought to get more punishment, and I threw my pink parasol down the well, as the mothers in the missionary books throw their infants to the crocodiles in the Ganges river.
As I look back I see that Miss Ross, the artist who brought me my pink parasol from Paris, sowed the first seeds in me of ambition to do something special.
Nevertheless she leaned a little forward, with her fawn-colored lashes dropped over her eyes, which were bent upon the ground and the point of the parasol she was holding with her little gloved hands between her knees.
The hat should have a broad brim, so as to shield the face from the sun, and render a parasol unnecessary.
The bonnet should not be of one color, and parasol of another, the dress of a third and the gloves of a fourth.
Her dress and hat and gloves and parasol showed a pale lavender overtint like that which he had seen overspreading the western slope.
She was seated beside him and had handed him her parasol in a little way which seemed to imply that, of course, he had reached for it, so that it was to be seen how used she was to have all such things done for her.
There was an official who took her parasol and his cane, and they were impressed by the fact of having to write their names side by side in the book--Sir Owen Asher, Evelyn Innes.
With the black crepon skirt she wore a heliotrope blouse, and she stood, one foot showing beyond the skirt, in a statue-like attitude, her pale parasol held negligently over one shoulder.
She put up her parasol and tried to understand, but she could only see the angles of houses, and the eccentricity of every passer-by.
And when hooking the skirt she suddenly remembered she had no parasol suitable to the gown.
The light, graceful dress and elegant parasol of the young girl, who occupied half of its single seat, looked ludicrously pronounced by the side of the slouching figure and grimy duster of the driver, who occupied the other half.
Nevertheless, after another impatient pause she desperately put up her parasol and stepped from the shanty.
She picked up her parasol from the bench with an impatient little jerk.
This style of handsome man would no more think of carrying a cane, than he would use a parasol to keep the sun out of his eyes.
Upon the pretty red and blue parasol great white letters formed this inscription, much used among the mousmés, and which I have learned to recognize: Stop!
Jerry strolled aimlessly along the smooth road leading out to the New Eden cemetery, her bead-trimmed parasol shading her bare head, and her pale-green organdie gown making her appear very summery.
But I should be," asserted Maria, and then, with her white parasol over her bared head, she started for a restless stroll along the old road under the great chestnuts.
Then you are most decidedly a devil," was his retort, as he stooped to pick up her parasol from the road.
Hold that elegant parasol before that lovely face, and I will be with you in a twinkling.
Then she tiptoed to his side, interposed the parasol between him and the sun, and brushed away the flies.
After this outburst the man slept gently on, while the little girl still held the parasol aloft and looked down with a great wonder at the frowsy, unkempt creature, trying to reconcile it with the little part of life that she knew.
The parasol was agitated; but the little girl controlled herself and continued her self-appointed ministrations.
An hour passed, during which she occasionally shifted the parasolfrom one tired hand to the other.
His eyes followed down the parasol handle to the tight-clutched little fingers, and along the arm to the child's face.
The first parasol of my acquaintance that passed should be my refuge, provided the bearer were not too stout.
Compromise beneath a parasol was better than dignity in the sun.
When the king arrived, a rich umbrella or parasol all embroidered in gold was borne before him.
He was seated under a silk parasol which covered him entirely.
She put up an immense mauve-coloured parasol to shut herself out, and the others rose, as the carriage passed in a whirl of dust.
At last, as they approached their gates, the girl furled her parasol with a snap which might easily betoken a decision.
Mildred took a parasol out of the stand, with the air of a purchaser selecting the one that most struck her fancy.
The walk and her red parasol had been too great colorists.
But our path lay beneath a green roof, and each branch spread over us a parasol of broad fresh leaves.
Any one with half an eye could see that she was resolved not to drop the parasol again.
In any case, he picked up theparasol and returned it to her, snatching it, in fact, almost from beneath the foot of the nearest stranger.
Mamma, I lost myparasol somewhere coming down the Mount of Offence.
Miss Jones was the young lady who lost her parasol on the Mount of Offence, and so recklessly charged the Arab children of Siloam with the theft.
With it on one side, and the parasoltilted up on the other, it would be as good as a tent.
Three clear, sharp little raps--clearer and sharper, indeed, than those he made with the parasol handle.
She shifted her parasol and her fingers fondled the ribbon on the handle.
Susannah Chressham tilted her parasol and turned keen eyes on his half-ashamed face.
The hood of her bournous floated in the wind, and she sheltered herself from the rays of the sun under a parasol of lilac satin pointed at the top like a pagoda.
Then, next morning, noticing the parasolon the top of the piano: "Ah!
Now he came across a shot-silk parasol with a little carved ivory handle, which had come all the way from China.
Happening to come into contact with a chair, he knocked down a parasol which had been laid across it, and the ivory handle got broken.
