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Updated: June 5, 2025
As the rich and solemn strains swept grandly through the spacious Temple, Niphrata stretched out her hands toward the High Priestess, a smile of wonderful beauty lighting up her fair child-face.
Each person in the little drawing-room saw the queer flame in the child-face Coombe himself was fantastically struck by the sudden thought that its expression might have been that of an obstinate young martyr staring at the stake. Robin shrilled out her words: "Andrews will pinch me Andrews will pinch me! But No! No!" and she kept her hand behind her back.
"'Ello, Jack, how are you getting on?" "All right, father," said the boy, brightening up, and seeming greatly relieved. He looked down at the little girl with a smile that I can't describe, but didn't speak to her. She still stood with quivering chin and mouth and great brimming eyes upturned, full of such pity as I never saw before in a child-face pity for him.
His father, moved by motherly persuasions, as we can easily infer, bought him casts for models, that he might continue his drawing-lessons at home; his own small allowance of pocket-money went for prints; his wistful child-face presently became known to dealers, and many a cheap lot was knocked down to him with amiable haste by friendly auctioneers.
In truth there is only one thing in that pictured character of his, I can for the present judge myself free from, namely, the careless rejection of true love for false, the wanton misprisal of a faithful heart, such as Niphrata's, whose fair child-face even now often flits before my remorseful memory, and the evil, sensual passion for a woman whose wickedness was as evident as her beauty was paramount!
'It had long been my habit to roam about the streets of London whenever I could afford the time to do so, in the hope of finding what I sought, the fascinating and indescribable expression on that one lovely child-face. Sometimes I believed that I had found this expression.
She was taken up, dressed in her prettiest frock and led down the narrow stairway. She heard the Lady say: "Shake hands with Lord Coombe." Robin put her hand behind her back she who had never disobeyed since she was born! "Be pretty mannered, Miss Robin my dear," Andrews instructed, "and shake hands with his Lordship." Each person in the little drawing-room saw the queer flame in the child-face.
But I knew that remorse had had its perfect work, and that the sudden vision of a sweet child-face out of whose rosy lips came the accusing words, "I love my new mamma best, and I don't want my gone-away mamma ever to come back," had pierced her heart through and through. "Since I breathed, A houseless head, beneath the sun and stars, The soul of the wood has stricken through my blood."
"It is only really good singers who can afford to do that." In spite of her dimpled figure and child-face, Rose Macleod had a very stately little way with her, and it served to repel one pair of eyes that for the first time that evening caught sight of her as she moved towards the instrument. A little queen! That was what he had always called her in his heart. His little queen!
They were poor farming people, oppressed by cruel taxmasters; and the first things they saw were the cattle and sheep, and the next thing was the simple girl with the child-face, who knew nothing yet of the ways wherein a lonely woman must fend for herself. "You cannot live here alone, my daughter," they said; "you would perish. Then think of the danger a child like you, with a face like a flower!
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