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His name not infrequently occurs to the graceful lyrics with which he supplied the theatre. There are some pretty lines of his, 'Corinna, I excuse thy face', in Act v of Southerne's The Wives Excuse; or, Cuckolds make Themselves ; and a still better song, 'Bright Cynthia's pow'r divinely great, which was sung by Leveridge in the second act of Southerne's Oroonoko , came from his prolific pen.
At the southern end of the lake are the edifices of the Corinna Institute, a favorite school for young ladies, where large numbers of the daughters of America are fitted, so far as education can do it, for all stations in life, from camping out with a husband at the mines in Nevada to acting the part of chief lady of the land in the White House at Washington.
A little farther on, when they turned into Franklin Street, he saw that the old print shop was in darkness, except for the lights in the rooms of the caretaker and the lodgers in the upper storey. Corinna had gone home, he supposed, and he wondered idly if she were with Benham?
"Only a demagogue! My dear Corinna, the demagogue is the one everlasting and unalterable American institution. He is the idol of the Senate chamber; the power behind the Constitution." "But what does he really stand for Vetch, I mean?" "Ask him. He would enjoy telling you." "Would he enjoy telling me the truth?" With the laughter still in his eyes Benham drew nearer and stood looking down on her.
"My dear," began Corinna brightly, and while she spoke she drew the girl to the leather-covered couch by the window, and sat down still holding the cold hands in her warm ones. "So you are going to marry Stephen." "I can't," replied Patty, and she turned her face slightly away as if she shrank from meeting Corinna's eyes. "I can't after what I know. I can't do it because of Father."
"Well, you needn't," he assured her with admiring pleasantry. "As far as looks go and that's a long way I haven't seen any one that was better than you!" The afternoon sunshine streamed through the dull gold curtains into the old print shop where Corinna sat in her tapestry-covered chair between the tea-table and the log fire.
A slight excess, too deep a carmine in her smooth cheeks, too high a polish on her pale gold hair, too thick a dusk on her lashes; this was the only flaw that one could detect in her appearance. If men liked that sort of thing, and they apparently did, Corinna reflected, then they could scarcely complain of an emphasis on perfection.
'Put that pin rather more to the right lower stupid one! Do you not observe how even those beautiful eyebrows are? One would think you were dressing Corinna, whose face is all of one side. Now put in the flowers what, fool! not that dull pink you are not suiting colors to the dim cheek of Chloris: it must be the brightest flowers that can alone suit the cheek of the young Julia.
I used to tell Powhatan that he'd get the name of a drunkard simply because he could stand what the rest of the world couldn't and I'll say as much for our friend Gideon." "Do you mean, my dear," inquired Corinna placidly, "that the Governor is honestly dishonest?" The Judge's suavity clothed him like velvet. "I know nothing about his honesty. I doubt if any one does.
"No," responded Corinna, with the ripe judgment that is the fruit of bitter experience, "but, if I were ever loved to desperation, I should expect to be. Desperation does things like that." "You couldn't bear it any better than I can. No woman could." "Perhaps not."
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