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A peep of enquiry into the depths of the coffee pot, the gas turned to a circle of blue beads, and she was down the hall to sound the second alarm. "Floss, you know if Al once gets into the bathroom!" Floss sat up in bed, her eyes still closed. She made little clucking sounds with her tongue and lips, as a baby does when it wakes.
And yet the gates of her heart and soul had shut in his face with a slow, resonant clang, shutting him out for ever. There was no need for her to go into a convent. Her will had done it. And between this young mother and this young father lay the crippled child, like a bit of pale silk floss on the pillow, and a little white pain-quenched face. He could not bear it. He just could not bear it.
And how's the little girl to-night?" said Henry Selz. Floss dimpled, blushed, smiled, swayed. "Did I keep you waiting a terribly long time?" "No, not a bit. Rose and I were chinning over old times, weren't we, Rose?" A kindly, clumsy thought struck him. "Say, look here, Rose. We're going to a show. Why don't you run and put on your hat and come along. H'm? Come on!"
Floss Eden engrossed in her own drawing-room comedy with Captain Martin saw less than nothing, except that 'Mr Sinclair's other native cousin' came too often to the house. For she turned up her assertive nose at 'native gentlemen'; and confided to Martin her private opinion that Aunt Thea went too far in that line. She bothered too much about other people all round which was true.
'Not by about twenty years, I said. 'I'm Floss, Rose's sister. Let go my hands!" Rose a transfigured Rose, glowing, trembling, radiant repeated, vibrantly, "You said, 'I'm Floss, Rose's sister. Let go my hands! And ?" "He looked kind of stunned, for just a minute. His face was a scream, honestly. Then he said, 'But of course. Fifteen years.
Just then he strikes against a dandelion which has gone to seed, and, like men's resolutions and men's promises, the white ball of down is scattered, its white floss flies out and is dispersed. The night is not cold as the nights generally are in that part of the country. The warmth is kept in by the grey cloud blanket. The winds show themselves merciful for once and do not blow.
The three walked swiftly and silently in single file, and neither Shawnee nor Miami eye would have known that they were not Indian. They walked, toes in, as Indians do, and they had every trick of manner or gesture that the red men have. All trace of civilization was gone. Henry Ware, Thomas floss, and Solomon Hyde had disappeared.
A body was found in the river, the dead body of a young woman very fair and slight and tall. Every one thought that it was my body. I had gone away without a word. No one knew where I was. My own father identified the corpse, and Floss and Marion, at their boarding-school, were put into mourning. Then mother went.
Here the young lady lighted softly on an ottoman, and sank gracefully back with a weary-o'-the-world air; and when she had settled down like so much floss silk, fixing her eye on the ceiling, and doling her words out languidly yet thoughtfully just above a whisper, "Uncle, darling," inquired she, "where are the men we have all heard of?" "How should I know? What men?"
"Now, one can understand one so tall as I having to stand upright and do my duty; but you, why, you are no taller than one of my green pods that I am filling with floss " "And not half so tall as one of my leaves that I must line with velvet," interrupted the mullein-stalk again. The dandelions looked grieved for a moment, but answered brightly: "Why, don't you know?
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