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Any draft of desire takes me with it sucks me up the black flues of intrigue and adventure. I'm making no excuses, for I like it. It's fascinatingly kaleidoscopic. It's Life; reflected and re-reflected in Life's thousand mirrors, with the beauties magnified and the dull places rubbed out. No apology for myself but I'm accountable to you when you're drawn into it!"
The one current was the outer world with its ever varied happenings, the other was the inner world of thoughts and moods, deeply, fascinatingly interesting. It seemed to H. I. that there were "two I's, one of which sat just over my head and looking down on the other I, watching its strivings, its emotions, its thoughts with a detached and yet palpitating interest.
"It's my business to look well in clothes, you know, and it's masculine to admit my efficiency in a particularly feminine line." "You were scarcely fascinatingly efficient in the garb in which you first appeared to me." Philip laughed at the recollection. "That isn't fair. I would have been if I had had enough to eat." She looked at him, and her eyes sparkled gaily. "I surrender," he said.
"Our house has done very little in that way, to be sure but I suppose that our credit is about as good as Battie's and Jolly's, and if " but the Colonel is in a brown study. "Clive will have a good bit of money when I die," resumes Clive's father. "Why, you are a hale man upon my word, quite a young man, and may marry again, Colonel," replies the nephew fascinatingly.
He had a long, thin, tanned face, with a thick mop of soft hair falling across his forehead, a clear gaze and a flashing, wistful, fascinatingly sweet smile as he repeated: "Hello, Penelope!" "Hello, Still Jim!" replied the girl, while her round cheeks showed dimples that for a moment made Jim forget her eyes. "Uncle Denny's been busy, I see," said Jim. Then he was speechless.
They shook hands all around and exchanged greetings, and then the Fuzzies began clamoring to be noticed. Finally all of them, Fuzzies and other people drifted over to the table under the trees. Ruth Ortheris sat down on the grass with Mamma and Baby. Immediately Baby became interested in a silver charm which she wore on a chain around her neck which tinkled fascinatingly.
She was looking sweet and sad and peculiarly beautiful. There was an exquisite sheen on her skin. She had washed her hair that morning, and it was straying fascinatingly about her brow and ears and neck. Baird looked at her, lowered his eyes and colored. "I'll not be long," she said hurriedly. She had to pass him in the rather narrow doorway. From her garments shook a delicious perfume.
Tom Poppins did not fail to bellow "Bring on the dish-water," nor Miss Mary Proudfoot to cheep demurely "Don't y' knaow" in a tone which would have been recognized as fascinatingly English anywhere on the American stage.
Lad was tempted to follow the creeping body and the fascinatingly swinging bag indoors. But his one effort to enter the house, with muddy paws, by way of an open window, had been rebuked by the Lawgivers. He had been led to understand that really well-bred little dogs come in by way of the door; and then only on permission.
Canning, the difficult, had merely saluted her fascinatingly, and retired to re-maroon himself in the rural villa of his kinsmen, the Allison Paynes, where he halted for a week or two on his health-seeking progress southward. It looked like a parting forever, but wasn't, owing to that help which comes ever to those who help themselves.... To the sensible query, Mrs.
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