She raises her double gold eyeglasses, and, contracting her forehead, stares pryingly about her; and so fashionable is she, and her modernity is so picturesque, that for a moment you think of the entrance of a duchess in the first act of a piece by Augier played on the stage of the Français.

He had a pistol in his hand, which he rested on the side of the boat, while, with a fearful scowl, he looked pryingly around.