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Their slender trunks were high and arched, their branches curved downward. They seemed to stoop, as young things that have grown too tall for their own strength. The green of their leaves was paler and more transparent. Underneath the trees the ground was covered with a finer, softer grass. The girl was dancing barefoot. She wore a thin white dress.
She used to make the tea herself, while the lodger sat and smoked; and she had a fascinating way of doubling the thin slices of bread into long strips and nibbling at them like a mouse at a piece of cheese. She had wonderful little teeth and Cupid's-bow lips, and she had a fashion of lifting her veil only high enough for one to see the two Cupid's-bow lips.
The Ruler of the Year stood there with locks white as snow, but he knew not it was his hair that gleamed so white he thought snow-flakes were falling from the clouds; and soon a thin covering of snow was spread over the fields. And then the church bells rang for the Christmas time. "The bells ring for the new-born," said the Ruler of the Year.
"Here!" replied a thin man, in the uniform of a retired officer. "Merchant of the Second Guild, Peter Baklasheff!" "Here we are, ready!" said the good-humoured merchant, with a broad smile. "Lieutenant of the Guards, Prince Dmitri Nekhludoff!" "I am he," answered Nekhludoff.
The stinging wind that had blown the command home into barracks, and scourged the humped shoulders of the men and the thin flanks of their mounts, had cut the flesh over the captain's high cheek-bones until it was red and raw. The lower part of his face was hidden under a growth that matched his drooping moustache.
There was a light mist rising, a thin moonlit-colored vapor that crept slowly upward from the ground and remained hovering like a wide, suddenly-spun gossamer web, some two or three inches above it, thus giving a cool, luminous, watery effect to the hot and arid soil.
So she was forced to the bitter conclusion that she would have to go on living the life, and eat the bread of the Herons, with as much patience as she could command, in the hope that some day "something would happen" to release her from her bondage, which was gradually robbing her eyes of their brightness and making her thin and listless.
Her head had fallen back and a thin stream of blood was welling over the laces at her bosom. "She is dead!" cried Saidie. "Oh, will someone fetch a doctor, quick!" But almost before the words were spoken he was there, and when Bella opened her eyes they fell on the grave, anxious, kindly face of the man whose wife she had been. "Jack! Jack! is this the end?" "Hush no no!
He looked more wandering than ever with his high white collar, his large spectacles, and his thin, dusty hair; the fire of some hidden, vital spirit burnt beneath those glasses, and his face was so kindly that she felt ashamed of herself for having avoided him so often. "Both the aunts are at Miss Avies'." she said. "Oh," he said, looking at her rather blankly.
Her head was bare, her white dress and her delicate slippers were very thin, and the chill of the autumnal night was already coming on. But she thought of none of these things, felt none of them, and did not stop at the door of the stable, although she had never entered it before, and it was now very dark within.
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