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It was the tiger-hunt, in view of his own village, and he sat down, tremulous with rapture, in the grass to watch. It was almost as if his dream that he himself should be a hunter of tigers was coming true. He wondered why the beaters seemed to move so slowly and with so little heart. He would have known if he could have looked into their eyes. Each black pupil was framed with white.
Marechal, who had listened silently until then, interrupted the conversation, to defend the monkeys in the name of Littre. He had framed a theory, founded on Darwin, and tending to prove that men who despised monkeys despised themselves. Herzog, a little taken aback by this unexpected reply, had looked at Marechal slyly, asking himself if it was a joke.
Colonel Forney crossed the Atlantic with him when Peabody was in his seventy-first year, and here is what Forney says: "I sat on one side of the cabin and he on the other. He was reading from a book, which he finally merely held in his hands, as he sat idly dreaming. I was melted into tears by the sight of his Jove-like head framed against the window.
Only a few weeks before, they had all been expecting harsh treatment, many, indeed, anticipated punishment, not a few were dejectedly looking forward to a life of exile and want. The President's policy, which had been framed for him by Mr. Seward, charged all this.
This young man with a livid face a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance has an indescribable fascination, sober in speech as in conduct, dressed in black, lean as a consumptive, but nevertheless vigorously framed visited the family of his former master and the house of his cashier less from affection than from self-interest.
The servant who opened the door for Daisy looked earnestly at the fair, pleading young face, framed in rings of golden hair, so pure and spiritual that it looked like an angel's with the soft white moonlight falling over it. "You will not refuse me," she repeated, timidly. "I must speak to Mrs. Lyon." "You have come too late," he replied, gently; "Mrs. Lyon is dead."
At the words, Katrine, who had been retuning an old guitar, took alarm and was alert on the instant. Striking it quickly, insistently, she came to the door of the dining-room, which framed her beauty like a picture. "I'm going to sing you an Irish song, a real Irish song!" she cried, gayly, touching the strings.
When she dusted the spacious parlors, she looked admiringly at the large mirrors, the gilded circles of gas lights, and the great pictures framed in crimson and gold, and thought that the Temple of Solomon could not have been more grand. She could scarcely believe Mrs. Delano was wealthy.
The drawing-rooms still had their old silk hangings a white ground covered with wreaths of flowers and birds with wonderful bright plumage hand-painted framed in wood of two shades of light green. Binche, name of a village in Belgium where the lace is made. The big drawing-room was entirely panelled in wood of the same light green, most beautifully and delicately carved.
When I found myself alone with her at the big telescope adjusting everything with oh! such exquisite precision and then sometimes discovered my hand resting upon hers, or my head touching those silken brown curves of hair that framed her white brow and reddening cheeks, the throbbing pleasure was so sweet, so unexpected, so strange, that I felt a new desire rise in my heart, and the newness of life lifted me for a moment out of myself, and started those fires of ambition and hope that only a lovely woman can awaken in the heart of a man.
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