I keep a little reservoir of it." He then handed her the same with great politeness.

She looked in his eye, and saw he was not to be trifled with.

She complied like a lamb, and the heavenly color and velvet gloss that resulted were admirable.
He kissed her and said, "Ah! now you are my Rosa again.

Oblige me by handing over that powder-puff to me." She looked vexed, but complied.
"When you come back I will tell you why." "You are a pest," said Mrs.Staines, and so joined her friend, rosy with rain-water and a rub.
"Dear me, how handsome you look to-day!" was Miss Lucas's first remark.
Rosa never dreamed that rain-water and rub could be the cause of her looking so well.
"It is my tiresome husband," said she.

"He objects to powder, and he has taken away my puff." "And you stood that ?" "Obliged to." "Why, you poor-spirited little creature, I should like to see a husband presume to interfere with me in those things.