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"I hoped we might go on with our talk," he said. He still addressed her somewhat as one addresses a friendly child; "I wanted to hear the end of that story about the Hungarian student." "He died, in Davos, poor boy," said Miss Woodruff, looking down at him from her slightly higher place, while Louise stood by dejectedly. "He wrote to my guardian and we went to him there and she played to him.
The valley of Davos, where I am writing, more than five thousand feet above the sea, is not beautiful, as Alpine valleys go, though it has scenery both picturesque and grand within easy reach. But when summer is passing into autumn, even the bare slopes of the least romantic glen are glorified. Golden lights and crimson are cast over the grey-green world by the fading of innumerable plants.
Roper had had the slightest presence of mind, he would have addressed to Winn. As it was he did nothing but snarl a timid and ineffectual snarl which was without influence upon the situation. "You'd better clear out," Winn continued; "but if I see you in Davos after the eight o'clock express to-morrow I shall give myself the pleasure of breaking every bone in your body.
"But the Countess is fascinating, and if she would be kind, Monte Carlo might effect a cure of the heart, as Davos did of the lungs." "I believe you're capable of marrying for pique. Oh, if I could prove to you that you aren't, and never have been, in love with Helen!" "It would be difficult." "I'll engage to do it, if you'll take my prescription." "What is that?" "Cheerful society and amusement.
Several hemorrhages forced them to the conclusion that they must be once more on the wing, and as both felt an unconquerable repugnance to spending another winter at bleak Davos, it was finally decided to go where their hearts led them, and seek a suitable place in the south of France. As Mrs. Stevenson was too ill just then to travel, the invalid, accompanied by his cousin, Mr.
It had all the same materials endless snows, forests of fir-trees, soaring peaks and the serene blueness of the skies and yet as Davos it didn't in the least come off. It was more beautiful and less definite; the peaks were nearer and higher; they streamed out around the valley like an army with banners.
The Symonds girls at Davos told me that you smoked!!! at which I am shocked, because it is not the manner of ladies in England. I always imagine you with a long hookah puffing, puffing, since I heard this; give it up, my dear Margaret it will get you a bad name. Please do observe that I am always serious when I try to make fun.
I begged him to come down here, but he wouldn't says that his hand is no longer steady enough to hold a gun it's awful! worse because I'm not merely fond of him and regretting the possible loss of a good friend I have felt like a beast all day. But I can't help it. For God's sake write and persuade him to go to Davos at once and picture the delights of a pretty and devoted nurse.
No longer conscious of the technical side of the playing, so spiritualized was it, so crystalline the touch, Davos forgot his manners and slipped through the gateway, through the dark garden, toward an open window in which burned a solitary candle. The mystery of this window and the quicksilver dartings of the music gods, what a touch, what gossamer delicacy! set his heart throbbing.
Not she! She sent him to Davos, paid for it somehow. He's back again now. He can't go on the stage, but he's got a light job somewhere. I don't know that he's earning anything particular. They've got a baby to keep, but they do it all right between them. She isn't pleasant to look at, is she? What's that matter? She's a bit of real life, anyhow." "Why didn't you bring me here before, Kendricks?"
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