The deadly sunshade.

It did so now, in the shelter of her diminutive sunshade opened flat against its jointed handle to fend off the strong afternoon beams, while she explained to Greenleafdismounted beside the wheels with Mandevillethat Constance, Anna's elder sister, would arrive by and by with Flora Valcour.

On the right flank rode the two women, with enormous red and white cotton sunshades stretched behind them.

And she was in her victoria and away, a very grand-looking lady, indeed, with two in spick and span summer livery on the box, with her exquisite white and gold sunshade, a huge sapphire in the end of the handle, a string of diamonds worth a small fortune round her neck, a gold bag, studded with diamonds, in her lap, and her superb figure clad in a close-fitting white cloth dress.

To this class, too, belonged certain obese women and emaciated men sitting, in couples, under the gay sunshades with which the beach was bright.

She was dressed in white, purest ivory white, from top to toeradiant, dazzling, under an immense sunshade fringed with creamy marabouts.

For a rudder we carried a long, flapping clothesline arrangement, like the tail of a kite, to the lower end of which were threaded seven yellow-silk devices suggesting inverted sunshades without handles.

No one figured more largely in the Parisian chronicle than the Princess Estradina, and no name more impressively headed the list at every marriage, funeral and philanthropic entertainment of the Faubourg Saint Germain than that of her mother, the Duchesse de Dordogne, who must be no other than the old woman sitting in the Bath-chair with the crumpled bonnet and the ridiculous sunshade.

"This is a bright day, Miss," volunteered the waiter who handed her her unnecessary sunshade.

' Lesbia laughed, and lowered the big yellow sunshade, so as to hide herself altogether from the starers.