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She stood looking gravely at him, her surrender plain in the curve of her tremulous lip, the droop of her faltering, silk-fringed lids. Knowledge came to him with a blinding, suffocating suddenness which set his brain to reeling and wrung a rapturous cry from his throat. After a long time he felt her shudder in his arms.
"I fully intended going to prayer meeting myself to-night," she said, "but it gets to be a great tax, an evening out of every week, and I do dread the night air so much." Mrs. Judge Hildreth dipped her jeweled fingers into the perfumed water of her finger glass and dried them on her silk-fringed napkin. "Oh, Lawrence, don't forget Judge Tracer's dinner to-morrow night.
On the platform stood the trumpeters with their silk-fringed clarions, and the iron mouths of the culverins, which had been recently discharged, protruded through the battlements. The arms and motto of the Hoghtons, carved in stone, were placed upon the gateway, with the letters T.H., the initials of the founder of the tower.
"Are you sure it's for me, Ephraim?" she asked, as she began to undo the pretty ribbons which tied the parcel rose-colour ribbons like that in her hair. The excitement of all very nearly equalled hers, and when she lifted out of the soft white paper a beautiful silk-fringed sash of the same shade, they all shrieked with joy.
In honour of the occasion every woman had draped herself in the graceful mantilla, either black or white, and even the poorest wore a scarlet or orange silk-fringed crêpe shawl. The usual precautions as to detectives and a guard of soldiers had been taken, but the buxom and amiable Infanta was popular among the lower orders, so that no revolutionist outbreak was feared.
The burnished-copper hair, the silk-fringed eyes, the poise of her head, the tapering fingers even in the scarlet of her rouged cheeks, there was a similarity to the high colouring of the English girl. What a jest of the Fates that they should cast this poor creature of New York's streets in the same mould with her who was the very spirit of chastity! 'What a mockery! he muttered aloud.
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