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And he watched with strained, passionate eyes the movements of the Princess Ziska as they grew slower and slower, till she seemed floating merely like a foam-bell on a wave, and then ... from some unseen quarter of the room a rich throbbing voice began to sing: "Oh, for the passionless peace of the Lotus-Lily!
Theodosia valued the lightest foam-bell on the wayward surface of fashion, yet had escaped what Burr condemned as "the cursed effects of fashionable education," and it is needless to say that conventional ceremonies were waived between herself and the lady of the isle. "You came from Marietta; were you agreeably entertained there?" "They lionized father." "No; they 'snaked' me.
No one knows who she is; she loves Carmelo Neri, and there all is said. Such a little thing she is so delicate! like a foam-bell on the waves; and Carmelo You have seen Carmelo, signor?" I shook my head in the negative. "Ebbene!
And as for her talking as if she herself would gladly brave these storms was it for a foam-bell to brave a storm? was it for a rose-leaf to meet the driving rains of Ben-an-Sloich? "Shall we go back now?" said she; and as she turned to lead the way he could not fail to remark how shapely her neck was, for her rich golden-brown hair was loosely gathered up behind. But just at this moment Mrs.
Sometimes there is not a single foam-bell, or drifting pine-needle, or irregularity of any sort to manifest its motion. Yet when observed narrowly it is seen to form a web of gliding lacework exquisitely woven, giving beautiful reflections from its minute curving ripples and eddies, and differing from the water-laces of large cascades in being everywhere transparent.
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