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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Mademoiselle's hair has got loose and looks like a Huron's," said her maid Lizette, as her nimble fingers reaerranged the rich dark-golden locks of Angelique, which reached to the floor as she sat upon her fauteuil. "No matter, Lizette; do it up a la Pompadour, and make haste. My brain is in as great confusion as my hair. I need repose for an hour.
He was a little man and nervous, with dark-golden face and hair that bushed and strayed. His fingers were always nervously seeking hidden keys and he was quick with enthusiasm, instinct with life. His bride of a year or more, dark, too, in her whiter way, was of the calm and quiet type. Her soft contralto voice thrilled us often as she sang, while her silences were full of understanding.
He came, lightly as a panther, his dark, well-cut features softening a trifle; and I thought him handsome in his uniform, wearing his own dark hair unpowdered, tied in a short queue; but when he turned full face to greet Sir George Covert, I was astonished to see the cruelty in his almost perfect features, which were smooth as a woman's, and lighted by a pair of clear, dark-golden eyes.
He had not guessed how he had wanted to see Helen Rayner again until it was too late. That opened his eyes. A raging frenzy of action followed, in which he only tired himself physically without helping himself spiritually. It was sunset when he faced the west, looking up at the pink snow-domes and the dark-golden fringe of spruce, and in that moment he found the truth. "I love that girl!
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