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He thought also that the opera-glass was more particularly pointed towards the bow of the boat, and came to the natural conclusion that the bow oar, Miss Euthymia Tower, captain of the Atalantas, "The Wonder" of the Corinna Institute, was the attraction which determined the direction of the instrument. "Who is that in the canoe over there?" asked the owner of the spy-glass.
"I would rather have you for a friend than anybody in the world," she responded in a voice so caressing that Stephen would not have believed it belonged to her. "I am sure that I can be useful to you," said Corinna, for the gratitude in the girl's voice touched and embarrassed her, "and I know that you can be to me.
He will come as soon as he gets dressed," said Corinna. "He warned us to keep her quiet." "If he don't hurry, she'll be gone before he gets here," replied the old woman, looking round over her twisted shoulder. "Oh, Father, Father!" cried Patty, flinging her arms about his neck; and then over again like a frightened child, "Father, Father!" He patted her head with a large consoling hand.
Turning away from the mirror, Corinna glanced over the charming room, with the wood fire, the white bearskin rug, the ivory bed draped in blue silk, the long windows opening on the garden terrace and the starlit darkness. There had been luxury always.
It will require moderation, which Vetch has not, and adaptability, which John has never learned." "And never will learn," rejoined Corinna. "He is made of the mettle that breaks but does not bend." "Like my father; like all those who have petrified in the shape of a convention. And yet the new stuff the ideas that haven't turned to stone are full of froth they splash over.
Yes, symphonies, indeed, in the ears of memory are the names of the lightest loves that flittered butterfly-like across our path in the golden summer of our lives, each name calling up its human counterpart, with her own endearing personality distinguishing her from all other girls, her way of smiling, her way of talking, her way of being serious, all the little originalities on which she prided herself, her so solemnly held differentia of tastes and manners all, in a word, that made you realize that you were dining with Corinna and not with Chloe.
She had had a hard life, he knew, in spite of her beauty and her wealth; yet she had never lost the quality of youth, the very essence of gaiety and adventure. When he thought of her, Patty Vetch appeared merely cheap and common, though he felt instinctively that Corinna would have liked Patty if she had seen her in the Square with the pigeon.
"But I wish I could forget the old man's face." "Oh, and I also," Sir Thomas said. "And I cry Amen with far more heartiness, my lad, because I, too, once dreamed of of Corinna, shall we say?" "Mr. Wycherley was naturally modest until King Charles' court, that late disgrace to our times, corrupted him.
And from out of the plain where 'Mars loved to dance, rises the Muses' haunt, Helicon, by whose silver streams Corinna and Hesiod sang; while far away under the white aegis of those snow-capped mountains lies Chaeronea and the Lion plain where with vain chivalry the Greeks strove to check Macedon first and afterwards Rome; Chaeronea, where in the Martinmas summer of Greek civilisation Plutarch rose from the drear waste of a dying religion as the aftermath rises when the mowers think they have left the field bare.
Culpeper had relapsed into her tone of habitual martyrdom. "If Stephen chooses to kill me," she added, "he may do it." Corinna leaned toward her ingratiatingly. "Don't you admit, Cousin Harriet, that I have improved Patty tremendously?" "I see no difference." "Oh, but there is one a great difference!
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