"Some gentlemen don't know how to put on kid
gloves at all, but some do."
But he was receiving the blows on his
gloves and shoulders, rocking back and forth to the force of them like a tree in a storm, while the house cheered its delight.
Her stockings and boots and well fitting
gloves had worked marvels in her bearing--had given her a feeling of assurance, a sense of belonging to the well-dressed multitude.
"You are a plucky one, you." He patted her
glove with his hand.
"Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my
glove dreadfully," began Meg, whose
gloves were a tender point with her.
Then, she put on her
gloves again, and we drew round the fire, and Wemmick said, "Now Aged Parent, tip us the paper."
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid
gloves while she was talking.
I am afraid that Maud's lesson was not as thorough as it should have been, for Polly's head was such a chaos of bonnets,
gloves, opera-cloaks and fans, that Maud blundered through, murdering time and tune at her own sweet will.
``Cast my innocence into the scale,'' answered Rebecca, ``and the
glove of silk shall outweigh the
glove of iron.''
A strange lady, the one who had been talking to the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up and returned a
glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him.
Then, as soon as he recovered his breath a little, he shook the snow out of his boots and out of his left-hand
glove (the right-hand
glove was hopelessly lost and by this time probably lying somewhere under a dozen inches of snow); then as was his custom when going out of his shop to buy grain from the peasants, he pulled his girdle low down and tightened it and prepared for action.
"A meeting for one minute, for I'm going," said Betsy, smiling and putting on her
glove.
