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The arrangement of their hair was evidently a matter of personal taste, and not the slavish copying of any set fashion, some allowed it to hang in loosely flowing abundance over their shoulders, others had it closely braided, or coiled carelessly in a thick soft mass at the top of the head, but all without exception wore white veils, veils, long, transparent, and filmy as gossamer, which they flung back or draped about them at their pleasure ... and presently, after watching several of these fairy creatures pass by and listening to their low laughter and dulcet speech, a sudden memory leaped into Alwyn's confused brain, an old, old memory that seemed to have lain hidden among his thoughts for centuries, the memory of a story called "LAMIA" told in verse as delicious as music aptly played.
"Ah, but wait till to-night!" and Alwyn's eyes sparkled mirthfully "Perhaps you will alter your opinion then!" Here, collecting his scattered manuscripts, he put them by "I've done work for the present," he said "Shall we go for a walk somewhere?" Villiers assented, and they left the room together.
"But what do Teerswell and Stillings want?" "They want Bles Alwyn to make a fool of himself." "That is a trifle cryptic," Miss Wynn mused. The Senator amplified. "We are giving the South the Washington schools and killing the Education Bill in return for this support of some of our measures and their assent to Alwyn's appointment. You see I speak frankly." "I can stand it, Senator."
Such were a few of the questions that flitted dimly through the minds of the society-fagged fair ones that clustered round the Duchess de la Santoisie, and eagerly discussed Alwyn's personal beauty and extraordinary charm of manner. The gentlemen did not absent themselves long, and with their appearance from the dining-room the reception of the evening began.
Her low and melancholy voice went to the heart thus appealed to. But Alwyn's attention occasionally wandered, and he soon contrived to draw his host into the parlour. When Nicholas rose, at last, to depart, he beckoned Sibyll aside. "Fair mistress," said he, with some awkward hesitation, "forgive a plain, blunt tongue; but ye of the better birth are not always above aid, even from such as I am.
Luttrell; he was evidently tormented by remorse for his hardness to his father, and Olivia thought that he might unburden himself more freely to his old friend; and she was right. On her return she found them talking together, and the strained, hunted look had left Alwyn's eyes. Greta's were swollen with weeping, but there was a smile on her lips.
When he learned all the particulars of Alwyn's visit to Senator Smith and his cordial reception he judged it best to keep in touch with this young man, and he forthwith invited Bles to accompany him the next night to the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. "You'll find the best people there," he said; "the aristocracy. The Treble Clef gives a concert, and everybody that's anybody will be there."
I must tell you, however, that nothing concerning its kings or great men has been preserved, only a few allusions to one Hyspiros, a writer of tragedies, whose genius seems to have corresponded to that of our Shakespeare of to-day. The name of Sah-luma is nowhere extant." A burning wave of color flushed Alwyn's face, but he was silent.
'I thought you told me that the Duchess of Hamptonshire 'That is the Duchess, said his informant. 'But there is another? 'No; there is no other. 'But she is not the Duchess of Hamptonshire who used to Alwyn's tongue stuck to his mouth, he could get no farther. 'What's the matter? said his acquaintance. Alwyn had retired, and was supporting himself against the wall.
He was a great admirer of physical strength and beauty, and Alwyn's noble face and fine figure had won his respect, though of the genius of the poet he knew nothing, and cared less. It was enough for all the purposes of social usage that the author of "Nourhalma" was CONSIDERED illustrious, no matter whether he deserved the appellation or not.
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