Oh, my fear--my mad, miserable, wicked fear!--'She covered up her face in her poor worn
shawl, and moaned and murmured to herself behind it.
Looking like the lovely ghost of herself, her graceful slimness wrapped in her soft white
shawl, the rounded infantine mouth and cheek inevitably suggesting mildness and innocence, Rosamond paused at three yards' distance from her visitor and bowed.
A smooth, green spot between two stately pines was chosen for the stage;
shawls hung up, properties collected, audience and actors separated, and a word quickly chosen.
"You have said quite enough, I'm sure." The next minute she had swept down the stairs--and not until she reached the first floor did it suddenly occur to her that she had gone up into the attic to find a white wool
shawl in the cedar chest near the east window.
'Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to herself, 'and she's all over pins!--may I put your shawl straight for you?' she added aloud.
'When I fasten my shawl again,' the poor Queen groaned out:
"Anne Shirley," said Marilla solemnly, "I've just found my brooch hanging to my black lace
shawl. Now I want to know what that rigmarole you told me this morning meant."
"Then you'll need to kneel down, and me too," she said, laying the
shawl out for that purpose.
When he returned with the
shawl she took it and kept it in her hand.
When he lay in bed he seemed still to see her sitting in the corner of the railway carriage, with the white crochet
shawl over her head.
There was not a flutter of her coarse
shawl, perhaps, but had its interest in this man's eyes; not a tone of her voice but had its echo in his innermost heart.
Perhaps he felt that he would have liked to have something on his own arm besides a
shawl (the people laughed at seeing the gawky young officer carrying this female burthen); but William Dobbin was very little addicted to selfish calculation at all; and so long as his friend was enjoying himself, how should he be discontented?
Jaggers, suddenly stopping, and turning on the two women with the
shawls, from whom the three men had meekly separated.
They'll wear caps like my mother's--and
shawls; very soft
shawls."
Sikes and his companion enveloped their necks and chins in large dark
shawls, and drew on their great-coats; Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
