And, in fine, Patricia's return at a drizzling half-past eleven had found Miss Agatha sitting in the garden, in her night-dress only, weeping over fancied grievancesand Virginia asleep in the kitchen.

There lay Mandoline and Dotty side by side on the buffalo skins; and the Jewish mother stood in her short night-dress, with a tallow candle in her hand, and gazed at them tenderly.

Jason B. Grampus would have welcomed one in place of that pallid creature in a night-dress, who met him when he came in weavingly.

No word came from the just-awakened terror in a night-dress.

She came and opened the door in her night-dress.

Ann crying was an unusual sight, but Ann in a night-dress was almost unbelievable.

Straight to Gracie, huddled on the floor in her night-dress, she went, and lifted the child bodily to her bed.

; Sene stood beside his bed with her gray shawl thrown over her night-dress.

It was a night-dress, atoning in lavishness of material for deficiency in grace of make, and would have been a loose fit for the wife of the giant Chang.

He rejoiced to find her alone, as he came prepared to reveal to her more secrets than that of the count's menace; but the pleasure he took in having so favourable an opportunity was very much damped, by seeing her look more pale than usual, and that she was in a night-dress.

She had fainted, and was lying across the pillow, with her night-dress partly open, so as to expose her neck and shoulders.

She was in her night-dress, and seemed overwhelmed with affliction.

Through much suffering, thought and sensation were, to a great extent, dead in her; and, in a sort of emotive numbness, she laid her candlestick in its usual place on the chair by her bedside; and, sitting up in bed, her night-dress carefully buttoned, holding the tumbler half-filled with chloral, she tried to take a dispassionate survey of her life.

She caught up a great pair of tongs and started down stairs, the candlestick in one hand, the tongs in the other, Miss Faithful, who dared not stay behind, threw a shawl over her night-dress and followed close at her sister's heels, while the cat crawled still farther under the clothes, and refused to answer to Miss Sophonisba's call.

The king slowly opened his large dark-brown eyes, made the sign of the cross, and kissed a little dark reliquary which he drew from under his night-dress.

Then, with a nod to his brother and a short word of greeting to the dauphin and to the Due du Maine, he swung his legs over the side of the bed and sat in his long silken night-dress, his little white feet dangling from beneath ita perilous position for any man to assume, were it not that he had so heart-felt a sense of his own dignity that he could not realise that under any circumstances it might be compromised in the eyes of others.

Juliet drew down the loose night-dress sleeve with a gentle but very decided hand.

But in obscurity she felt that not far away husband and son were passing through darkness toward the mystery of the great unknown; and there, in her night-dress, she knelt by the sill, hour after hour, straining her eyes and listening until dawn whitened the east and the rivers began to marshal their ghostly hosts.

Celia, her lovely hair over her shoulders, a scarf covering her night-dress, came in carrying a lighted candle; and instantly a voice from outside the window bade her extinguish the light or draw the curtain.

She was sitting in her white night-dress, on the box-sofa, with her shoe in her hand.

He was in a night-dress, and his naked legs were like sticks of tallow.

It was Vera, in her night-dress, her hair down her back.

He had a sudden vision of Phoebe in her white night-dress, opening the casement-window of the little cottage on a starry night, and listening to the sounds of distant water.

Now in what sense was this woman to be called a "nurse?" For the same reason if, after washing a patient, you must put the same night-dress on him again, always give it a preliminary warm at the fire.

She had fanned the fire with her little cambric night-dress, and was already in a blaze.