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"Let's stop here for a moment and watch," said Alexina. "It's too interesting. They look as if they'd eat her alive." The whole company seemed to be seething about Gora, and as they were rapidly presented by Miss Halsey and passed on they produced the effect, in the inner circles, of a maelstrom.
She concluded abruptly: "Do you think one could tell that a man's eyes were hazel the golden-brown hazel across a pitch dark room above the flame of a briquet?" "Hazel?" Alexina was standing behind Gora. She saw her body stiffen. "I could have vowed they were hazel. And that he was English.
But deep and intense Lord! Mark my words, she saw him at the Embassy. If she did and the thing's mutual she'll give poor old Maria such a shock that the war will look like ten cents." "Possibly." "You look really ill, Gora. No wonder you have headaches with that hair. It's magnificent but! Go to bed and I'll send up your dinner. Got any aspirin?" "Yes, thanks." "Au 'voir."
"Gora, I don't want to sound like the well-meaning friends who tell a mother when she loses her child that it is better off, but I can't help reminding you that a very large and able-bodied fairy presided at your cradle.
Gora, after all these years, ground her teeth as she had a sudden blighting vision of the day a week later, when, puzzled and resentful, she had walked up the steep hill with several of the girls whose homes were on California and Taylor Streets, and two of whom, like herself, were munching an apple.
You'd have the most complete independence. Do." Gora shook her head. "I've always this to fall back on." "Fall back on?" "Oh! I never meant to let that out. However....Perhaps it is as well....Morty you know his pride everybody has his prime weakness and that is his. Transpose it into snobbery if you like....We did not board down here. I kept a lodging house for business women.
She had done nothing, and Alexina wondered if she would have the courage to go into some sort of business with herself...they could give out they were bored, seeking a new distraction...save the precious pride of their families. She leaned forward and took her head in her hands. If she only had some one to talk things over with. It was impossible to confide in Gora, in any one.
In other words our troops were in a V-shaped position with Netsvetiafskaya as the base of the V, Ust Padenga as the left fork, and Nijni Gora as the right fork of same. The Cossack troops refused to occupy the position of Nijni Gora, claiming that it was too dangerous a position and almost impossible to withdraw from in case they were hard pressed.
Passing down the bald slopes of Lysa Gora toward the valley of the Orava River, the advancing German columns presented a conspicuous target for the Russians on the opposite slopes of Koziowa, screened by thick forests. Here one of the most desperate battles of the campaign ensued on February 6, 1915, between Von Linsingen's Austro-German army and Brussilov's center.
Alexina, who still hoped that she would always be able to regard Life as God's good joke, rather sympathized with him, and assured him that he would have nothing to apprehend from Gora in the future: she had no more fervent wish than to keep out of his way. He found himself on the whole very comfortable. Maria was always most kind, Alexina polite and amiable, and Tom "decent."
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