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She slipped it off and held it out, showing a bruise across the back of her hand. "Allah!" whispered the man, "that I should mark thee thus and yet, in love in love!" He took the ring, of which the dull-gold setting held an emerald in the form of a scarab with heartshaped base. The fortune-teller turned it over in the palm of his hand, then held it out. "Nay, this I cannot take.
She had nerve enough that plucky little lady with the dull-gold hair, and the brown velvet eyes! more nerve than he had where she was concerned. He went to bed and lay for a long time thinking of Helen May out there in that two-roomed adobe cabin, with a fifteen-year-old boy for protection and miles of wilderness between her and any other human habitation.
It was not a pleasant story, and yet there was much of credit in it to the young rake its subject, of dash and courage and princely generosity beside the profligacy and incontinence. The face had impressed him, with its story. He had often dreamed of it, and of the lace collar over the dull-gold velvet that became it so well. And here it was at last, in a city west of the Mississippi River.
She rose from her bed in a state of fixed determination that never faltered again. When Eleanor was dressed, she turned not to the front of the house where the business of drawing back a life was afoot, but to the fresh silences of her garden. She walked to the lattice whose view commanded the bay and the distant Gate. It was a quiet, dull-gold morning on the Roads.
As he was coming in that evening he passed her in the hall. She was clad in what he called a bathrobe, and what she called an Arabian burnoose, of black embroidered with dull-gold crescents and stars, showing a V of exquisite flesh at her throat. A shred of tenuous lace straggled loose at the opening of the burnoose.
A standard electric lamp lights the desk, both modern-painted pieces, and the beautiful old flower picture, black background with a profusion of colours in lovely soft tones, is framed by a dull-gold moulding and gives immense distinction. The chair is Venetian Louis XV, the same period as desk in style.
But this is what since has made me feel queer: you doubtless remember staying at Hollingdean, when I was a boy, and hearing the story of Lord Northwell's daredevil Royalist ancestor, the one with the lace collar over the dull-gold velvet, and the pointed chin, and the lazy scorn in the eyes. Those eyes are painted with drooping lids.
The walls are panelled and painted a soft taupe there are no pictures; simply one very beautiful mirror in a dull-gold frame, a Louis XVI reproduction. In another suite we have a boudoir done in sage greens and soft browns. The curtains of taffeta, in stripes of the two colours. Two tiers of creme net form sash curtains.
These curtains hang from dull-gold cornices of wood, with open carving, through which one gets glimpses of the green taffeta of the curtains. The sash-curtains are of the very finest cream net, and the window shades are of glazed linen, a deep cream ground, with a pattern showing a green lattice over which climb pink roses. The shades are edged at the bottom with a narrow pink fringe.
But if you'd actually like to see something my people at home consider rather good, why, here's a little tinted photograph I had done for my dear Daddy, the last Christmas he was with us. He liked it, and that's the reason I carry it about with me because he wore it on his old-fashioned watch-chain." She put into Martha's hand a thin, flat, dull-gold locket. Mrs.
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