They discovered I could draw: their pencils and colour-boxes were immediately at my service.
She saw them writing with their diamond pencils on golden slates, while she looked at the beautiful picture book which had cost half a kingdom.
The flare of the gas-jets, the open trunks, suggestive of travel and display, the scattered contents of the make-up box--rouge, pearl powder, whiting, burnt cork, India ink, pencils for the eyelids, wigs, scissors, looking-glasses, drapery--in short, all the nameless paraphernalia of disguise, have a remarkable atmosphere of their own.