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Corinna spoke very gently. "Perhaps it is not too late for tea, or may I get you a glass of wine? All winter I've intended to go and inquire because I heard you'd been ill. It has been so long since we really saw anything of each other; but I remember you quite well as a little girl such a pretty little girl you were too. You are ever so much younger, at least ten years younger, than I am."
Beneath the veil of white illusion which reached only to the tip of her small sharp nose, her eyes were suddenly touched with spring. "How delicious the flowers smell," she remarked when Corinna opened the door; and then, as she entered the room and glanced curiously round her, she asked incredulously, "Do people really pay money for these old illustrations, Corinna?" "Not here, Cousin Harriet.
<b>MODIGLIANI, SIGNORINA CORINNA.</b> Silver medal at Turin Exposition, 1898; silver medal at the Exposition of Feminine Art, 1899, 1900; diploma at Leghorn, 1901; gold medal. Member of the International Artistic Association. Born in Rome. Pupil of Professore Commendatore Pietro Vanni.
A little later, when she entered the long drawing-room where the other guests were already assembled, Corinna threw an inquiring glance in the direction of Mrs. Stribling. Could the shallow pink and white loveliness of that other woman, the historic type of the World's Desire, bear comparison with her own starry beauty? It was a petty rivalry.
Then taking the girl's hand in hers she added earnestly: "But, my dear, we must be careful, you and I, not to let our happiness depend too much upon one thing. We must scatter it as much as we can." "I can't do that," answered Patty simply. "I am not made that way. I pour everything into one thought." "I know," responded Corinna sadly, and she did.
"Every one who receives a classical education is introduced into their society, Pyrrha and Lydia, Glycera and Corinna, and many more of the same sort; and then the females in Aristophanes, what do you say to them, sir?" "Is it only females who lived two thousand or three thousand years ago, or more probably never lived at all, whose intimacy you have cultivated?
"Isn't that the way most of us decide things," asked Corinna, "if we know what is really to our advantage?" As Benham looked up he met her eyes. "In this case," he answered, with a note of austerity, as if he were impatient of contradiction, "the advantage to the public would seem to be the only one worth considering."
"Don't you think she will look lovely, just like a mermaid, in green and silver?" she asked lightly. "I don't know," he answered stiffly. "I am trying not to think about her." Corinna laughed. "Oh, my dear, just wait until you see her in that sea-green gown!"
Rose Stribling had failed to interest Benham, mused Corinna, for the same reason that she herself had been unable to arouse the admiration of Gideon Vetch. The lesson it taught, she repeated cynically, was simply that it was futile to stray too far from one's type.
"Talking was too much for her," she said. "I thought she'd pull through. She was so much better but talking was too much." "She is so ill that she doesn't know what she is saying," murmured Corinna in the girl's ear. "She is out of her mind." "No, she isn't out of her mind," replied Patty quietly. "She isn't out of her mind."
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