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"I'm so glad," he murmured: "but I was sure " He stopped, and the two looked kindly at each other. Millner averted his gaze first, almost fearful of its betraying the added sense of his own strength and dexterity which he drew from the contrast of the other's frailness. "Sure? How could any one be sure? I don't believe in it yet!" he laughed out in the irony of his triumph.
The filmy traceries of Gothic fretwork; the needle-like minarets; the hundreds of beautiful statues with which it is studded; the intricate and graceful architecture of every window and turret; and the frost-like frailness and delicacy of the whole mass, make an effect altogether upon the eye that must stand high on the list of new sensations.
There seemed to be about her, even to me that was never her lover, a radiancy, a nimbus, as it were, of celestial light that gave to pulsing flesh and running blood and circumambient skin a quality that was, as it were, flamelike, ethereal, unreal. Yet though the essence of her bodily being was, as I knew, so frail, there was no show of frailness in her gracious presence.
Shaggy gray- beards, sixty feet from trough to crest, leapt out of the windward murky gray, and in unending procession rushed upon the Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward.
I met a number of these enthusiasts before they sailed; I have since seen them at work in France. What struck me at the time was their rose-leaf frailness and utter unsuitability for the task. I could guess the romantic visions which tinted their souls to the colour of sacrifice; I also knew what refugees and devastated districts look like.
Her idea of a spiritual superiority that could soar over those two men, the bad and the good the bad because of his vileness, the good because of his frailness whispered to her of deserving, possibly of attracting, the best of men: the best, that is, in the woman's view of us the strongest, the great eagle of men, lord of earth and air. One who will dominate me, she thought.
As she spoke, she stretched her arms above her head, with a gesture revealing the suppleness of her slim young frame, but also its tenuity of structure the frailness of throat and shoulders, and the play of bones in the delicate neck. Justine Brent had one of those imponderable bodies that seem a mere pinch of matter shot through with light and colour.
I stumbled over some inequality of the ground, and we all three fell prone. This was the first time I had come actually to hand grips with any of the Mercutians. I felt now not only their lack of strength, but a curious frailness about their bodies a seeming absence of solidity that their stocky appearance belied. These two men were like half-grown boys in my hands.
"I suppose you'll be denying next that you were ever in Compigne " "I do." "Or that you would have married me last summer if I " "Olga!" "If I hadn't been wise enough " "You're mad!" She drew back form him, her eyes wide, but she had no reply. He took one step toward her and then stopped, impotent before her frailness, his glance wavering toward the door into the loft which mutely stared at him.
His intellectual sensibility and his elemental soul make for mystifications. As if he knew the frailness of his tenure on life, he sought azure and elliptical routes. He would have welcomed Maeterlinck's test question: "Are you of those who name or those who only repeat names?"
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