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Why should this lure of youth continue to possess him? She wore a white concoction of lace and silk which showed a pair of smooth young shoulders and a slender, queenly, inimitably modeled neck. He could tell by the sleek lines of her arms how strong she was. "It is perhaps too late," he said to himself, in comment. "I am getting old." The freshness of the hills in the pale night was sad.

She had thrown herself, at dinner, into every feature of the recent adventure of the companions, letting him see, without reserve, that she wished to hear everything about it, and making Charlotte in particular, Charlotte's judgment of Matcham, Charlotte's aspect, her success there, her effect traceably produced, her clothes inimitably worn, her cleverness gracefully displayed, her social utility, in fine, brilliantly exemplified, the subject of endless inquiry.

This vastness, even of these limestone mountains, took me especially at a place where the path bordered a steep, or rather precipitous, lift of white rock to which only here and there a tree could cling. I was still very high up, but looking somewhat more eastward than before, and the plain went on inimitably towards some low vague hills; nor in that direction could any snow be seen in the sky.

At the end of the eight days I repaired early as before to Paris; the duke was not long in joining me there. He was so inimitably well disguised, that no person would ever have detected the most elegant nobleman of the court of France beneath the garb of a plain country squire.

"No weight, am I, darling?" she went on jeeringly, and with an inimitably derisive air she put up an eye-glass and surveyed the top of his head. "You want a wig, my dear you do, indeed! Come with me to-morrow, and I'll buy you one to suit your complexion. Your wife won't know you!"

She found her seated on the kitchen door-step in lonely lamentation, and showered the gifts into her lap, while the vain one shrieked inimitably with pride in the sudden vision of her mistress and joy of the incredible possessions. "Here, and here, and here!" said Miss Betty in a breath, hurling the fineries upon her.

That this young man had without an hour of delay fallen abjectly in love with her was a circumstance with which she dealt after her own inimitably kind and undeleterious method, which in itself was an education to any amorous youth. "I can understand all you tell me," she said when he reached the point of confiding his hard past to her.

"How should I know still a stranger as I'm often rather happy to feel myself here and choosing my friends and picking my steps very much, I can assure you how should I know about all your social scandals and things?" "Oh we don't call THAT a social scandal!" Mrs. Brookenham inimitably returned. "Well, if you should wish to you'd have the way I tell you of to stop it. Divert the stream of Mr.

The left leg was inimitably formed; the calf was perhaps a little too round and Hibernian a fault gracious in the eyes of the fair sex; his ankle and foot were exquisitely small and delicately turned; of course he always wore shorts with immaculate white cotton or silk stockings.

We had taken two or three turns, when a large party approached us, in the centre of whom I recognized instantly Miss Bellasys. If possible, she looked handsomer than ever as she swept by at a sharp canter, sitting square and firmly, but yielding just enough to the stride of the horse perfectly erect, but inimitably lithe and graceful.