She looked dazzling in white satin striped with yellow and was covered with diamonds from waist to hat.

The banker, on his part, was handling a tremendous whip and sending along his two horses, which were harnessed tandemwise, the leader being a little warm-colored chestnut with a mouselike trot, the shaft horse a big brown bay, a stepper, with a fine action.
"Deuce take it!" said Nana.

"So that thief Steiner has cleared the Bourse again, has he?
I say, isn't Simonne a swell! It's too much of a good thing; he'll get into the clutches of the law!" Nevertheless, she exchanged greetings at a distance.

Indeed, she kept waving her hand and smiling, turning round and forgetting no one in her desire to be seen by everybody.

At the same time she continued chatting.
"It's her son Lucy's got in tow! He's charming in his uniform.