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I expect the grave will have to be opened, and the remains identified." "Ugh!" said Mrs. Vrain with a shrug, "how disgusting! I mean," she added, colouring as she saw that Lucian was rather shocked by her flippancy, "that sorry as I am for the old man, he wasn't a good husband to me, and corpses a week old ain't pleasant things to look on."
Then Wanda rose slowly to her feet, a little red flush colouring her brow, a fear which she knew absurd and yet which she could not crush down, rising into her fluttering breast. Then Mrs. Leland closed the door behind her, and stood with her back to it. "Will you tell me about it, Wanda, dear?" Her voice was troubled; her frank eyes, so like her daughter's, were at once sad and anxious.
'Still the day may come . . . I say only that it may: and the wish to marry is a rosy colouring . . . equal to a flying chariot in conducting us across difficulties and obstructions to the deed. And then one may have to regret a previous rashness. These practical men are sometimes obtuse: she dwelt on that vision of the future.
Those two years had changed Violet Tempest from a slender girl to a nobly-formed woman; a woman whom a sculptor would have worshipped as his dream of perfection, whom a painter would have reverenced for her glow and splendour of colouring; but about whose beauty the common run of mankind, and more especially womankind, had not quite made up their minds.
He was alone, with no one to guide him save Geos, who undoubtedly was his friend, but who as undoubtedly would desert him upon the slightest inkling of imposture. He found himself in a great, round room, or rather an oval one, domed at the top but tinted in a far more beautiful colouring lazuli blue.
Ferrieres is the name of the place where our vineyards are, the dearest village!" She was a beautiful little girl of a dainty porcelain type, her colouring low in tone. She wore no jewels, but her little, undeveloped neck and shoulders, of an exquisite immaturity, rose from the tulle bodice of her first decollete gown. "Yes," she continued; "I'm to go to Europe for the first time. Won't it be gay?
Colouring to the ears, he explained that he had never walked otherwise; whereupon her pity redoubled, and she by turns advised him to consult Master Doctor Caius, and to obtain a recipe from Mistress she meant Dame Alice Whittington, the kindest soul living, and, Lady Mayoress as she was, with no more pride than the meanest scullion.
Their colouring and form warms us unto dearer feelings. They seem fairer and brighter each year not among the great things yet, but so tenderly and purely on the way. Then I may betray a weakness of my own and I am glad to but I love the honeysuckle vine. Its green is good, its service eager, the white of its young blossoms very pure and magically made.
Through the square hall she ran into the drawing-room, which opened out on to the lawn; and there, in the French window, stood spying back at the spick-and-span room, where everything was, of course, placed just wrong. The colouring, white, ebony, and satinwood, looked nicer even than she had hoped.
I hope you did not tell the barmaids your real name." "Well, I suppose I should not criticise people that I know nothing about," said Mrs. Madison, colouring and serious. She changed the subject hastily. "Jack, I hope you will stay this afternoon. It would be the greatest comfort to have you in the house." "I will stay, certainly," said Emory.
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