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Updated: June 24, 2025
The beauty of her face was enhanced, rather than lessened, by the pallor of it, for the fading of the richer colors gave to the fine features an expression more spiritual, made plainer the underlying qualities that her accustomed brilliance might half-conceal.
Just as manners have become more free, and intimacies that once took months to develop, now need only minutes, so much contemporary verse-tribute to women is so detailed, so bold, so cock-sure, that the elaborate compliments only half-conceal a sneer. In all such work love is born of desire its sole foundation and hence is equally short-lived and fleeting. In the poems of Mr.
"Writing sonnets to your eyebrow," answers Roger in an unpleasant tone. "How clever you are!" retorts she, in a tone even more unpleasant, letting her white lids fall until they half-conceal the scorn in her eyes. Only half! "He is such a jail bird I beg his pardon, a town bird," says Sir Mark, lazily, "that I didn't think anything could keep him in the country so long. Yet, he doesn't look bored.
Then, as he stooped to search for some indication of a path or road which might guide him, his ears caught the slightest of noises other small sucking whispers. He was not the only wayfarer in this place! The mist was not a quiet thing; it billowed and curled until it appeared to half-conceal darker shadows, any one of which could be an enemy.
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