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A question had come up nobody can remember what it was nothing important, I think but two men came to blows and he got in between them he stood in the way and somebody shot him " He was talking, Corinna realized, in an effort to hold Patty's gaze, to divert her eyes by the force of his look from the burden which the men were bringing slowly up the steps outside and into the hall.
"O, excellent!" "Capital!" Uncle John, proud of his friend, whispered in Bagshaw's ear, "You see, Jack's beginning." And now hats and gloves were in motion. "You have got your flute, Frederick?" "Yes, mother," was the reply. "Lau, ma," cried Miss Corinna, "if I haven't come without 'Sweet Bird, and my scena from 'Medea, I declare."
A priceless vase of antique porphyry carved round about with pictures of the most grotesquely wanton of Roman divinities, the pride of some Corinna, scarcely drew a smile from him. The ruins of fifteen hundred vanished years oppressed him; he sickened under all this human thought; felt bored by all this luxury and art.
And this certainty, coming after the hungry pain of the last three weeks, brought a glow to his eyes and that haunting smile, like the smile of memory, to his lips. The light that Corinna had kindled illumined not a political career, but the small vivid image of Patty. Wherever he looked he saw her flitting ahead of him, a figure painted on sunlight.
the condition being that he shall not turn to behold her before attaining once again to the land of the living. The condition, of course, is not fulfilled. Orfeo seeks to clasp 'his half regain'd Eurydice, with the triumphant cry of Ovid holding the conquered Corinna in his arms: Lyrical beauty rather than dramatic power was, it has already been remarked, Poliziano's aim and achievement.
"If I had only known you were here, I should have hurried home," began Corinna cordially. Drawing a chair close to her visitor, she sat down with a movement that was protecting and reassuring. Her quick sympathies were already aroused.
"It doesn't matter," Corinna hesitated an instant, "only I wish you would make some one throw out those dead flowers downstairs." "I haven't been in the room for a week," replied Alice, dropping back on the couch as if her strength had failed her. "I don't seem to care about the house or anything else." As soon as her surprise at Corinna's visit had faded, she sank again into a listless attitude.
"I want you to go with me to the Harrisons' dance Wednesday night, and I want you to look your very prettiest." "But I'm not even asked." "Oh, you are. Mrs. Harrison has just told me she was sending your invitation with a number that had not gone out." How like Corinna it was to put it that way! "They are giving it for that English girl who is staying with them.
He knew his father had once been a zealous young doctor in Graylands, Illinois, and had later become one of the pioneers of medical enterprise in the mission field; he knew, too, that he had already worked for some years at Hankow before he met and married Miss Corinna Meecham, formerly of Drayton, Georgia, but at that time a teacher in a Chinese school supported by one of the great American churches.
The whole place had the vague depressing smell of closed rooms, or of dead flowers, the very odour of unhappiness. "Poor thing!" thought Corinna again. "That a man should have the power to make anybody suffer like this!"
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