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Some of those who listened yielded to the spell of it and the winning radiance of the amber eyes. But Mrs. Flynn was not of these. "There's nothing in this book of American parliamentary law that says the president has a right to promise anything binding on the club. I move that the president consider herself rebuked for exceeding her authority."
We took our first elephant ride one morning to visit Amber, the ancient but now deserted capital of the province of Jeypore, where tens of millions of dollars were wasted in the construction of splendid palaces and mansions that are now abandoned, and standing open and empty, most of them in good condition, to the enjoyment of tourists only and an occasional party of pilgrims attracted hither by sacred associations.
To which he responded quietly: "Good-evening, Mr. Amber. It's a pleasure to see you again. I trust you are well." "Quite, thank you. And you?" "I'm very fit, thank you sir." "And" Amber sat down again, Doggott kneeling at his feet to unlace and remove his heavy pigskin hunting-boots "and your brother?" For a moment the man did not answer.
I do not mean that I am always smoking certainly not; but I have bought two pipes and amber mouthpieces, and all the apparatus; which shows that I am in earnest. "Now I am in for it, I will make you perfect in the theory of smoking. We have here three sorts of pipes, of which I use but one, viz. the long straight pipe.
When all was still the Voice began to chant again, and the flames blazed higher and brighter, while the cobra resumed its mystic dance. Amber knelt on in a semi-stupor, staring glassily at the light and the serpent. "I, thine old Mother, have called ye together to help in my healing. From my feet to my head I am eaten with pestilence; yea, I am devoured and possessed by the Evil.
Amber said soothingly: "Now, now, my dear, you're not yourself, or you wouldn't say such things. It's every woman's duty to marry if she can and have children. As to your husband, it's no use expecting anything of men but what you get; and the sooner you realise it, my love, the happier you'll be." "I'll never realise it!" Marie fired. "Then you'll never settle down contentedly as you ought to."
The violet-grey spirit with the dark eyes and the crown of amber hair, who walks the dawn and the moonlight, and at blue-bell time? What was she, who was she, did she exist? He rose and stood a moment clutching the window-sill, to give him a sense of reality again; then began tiptoeing towards the door.
Nevertheless, he said enough to render Quain thoughtful.... "You're set on this thing, I suppose?" he asked some time after Amber had concluded. "Set upon it, dear man? I've no choice. I must go I promised." "Of course. That's you, all over. Personally, I think it'll turn out a fool's errand.
They clasped her belt and adorned the instep of her little amber silk slippers. She held a yellow rose in her hand, and yellow rosebuds lay among the lace at her bosom, and Mostyn, stupefied by her undreamed-of loveliness, saw golden emanations from the clear pallor of her face.
She wore a burning garnet, like a live coal on her bosom; and on her brow a golden circle set with garnets, and having golden points set with amber and topaz, and tipped with diamonds, and flashing like little tongues of flame from a circle of fire. Her mask was of golden gauze, perfectly moulded to her beautiful features.
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