I paid the bill, and as I passed out with a fascinating bow I thought I detected a light in the woman's eye that was gently ironical; and when I looked back from the street, and she was laughing all to herself about something or other, I said to myself with withering sarcasm, "Oh, certainly; you know how to put on kid gloves, don't you?
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.
Now she rested her elbow on the cushion of the
glove counter, and a pretty, pleasant young creature, delicate and deft of touch, drew a long-wristed "kid" over Mrs.
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.
Seest thou, Rebecca, as this thin and light
glove of thine is to one of our heavy steel gauntlets, so is thy cause to that of the Temple, for it is our Order which thou hast defied.
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.
