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He catalogued and assorted for the American the personalities about the place, presuming the curiosity which should be the tourist's attribute-in-chief. "And at the large table yonder under the potted palms, and half-screened by the plants who are they?" questioned Benton perfunctorily. "They appear singularly engrossed in their talk."
On a chair by the bedside, account-books were spread in confusion, and one a black book with a silver lock was lying on the bed. The physician stood on one side, half-screened by the curtains of the bed. Herresford beckoned Dora, who approached tremblingly. The old man crumpled up the bank-notes, and placed them in her hand, murmuring something which she could not hear.
"This way," said P. Sybarite, indicating the wide window nearby. Through its draped opening a shallow balcony showed, half-screened by palms whose softly stirring fronds, touched with artificial light, shone a garish green against the sombre sky of night. Immediately Marian Blessington slipped through the hangings and, turning, beckoned P. Sybarite to follow.
Ofttimes had he stood, half-screened behind the sails, gazing upon her as she loitered by the cabin hatch, surrounded by rude ruffian forms, like a little white lamb in the midst of so many wolves. Ofttimes had the sight caused his pulse to beat and his heart to throb with throes in which pain and pleasure were equally commingled, but the cause of which he could not comprehend.
But a wide veranda had been constructed on three sides of it, furnished with wicker chairs, and half-screened with boxes of growing flowers. All around the house flowers grew, old-fashioned garden flowers, roses and geraniums; beds of them everywhere, and blossoming shrubs along the stream. The house contained, besides the kitchen and the bedrooms, just one big room.
On the sofa, half-screened from me by the surrounding persons, a woman was stretched out: the silver of her embroidered dress and the rays of her diamonds gleamed and shot forth as she moved uneasily. And immediately under the chandelier, in the full light, a man stooped over a harpsichord, his head bent slightly, as if collecting his thoughts before singing. He struck a few chords and sang.
He passed his thin hand across eyes and forehead. She folded her arms under her breast and hung far over the shadow-dappled wall half-screened in young vine-leaves. Over her pink sun-bonnet and shoulders the hot spring sunshine fell; her face was in shadow; his, under the full glare of the unclouded sky, every ravage starkly revealed.
Through a doorway half-screened by a portière could be seen a large studio peopled with heroic statuary, plaster casts, and lumps of clay veiled in wet cloths. And on the other side of the great window of the studio green trees waved their foliage. The trees were in Regent's Park. Another detail to show that the Peels had not precisely failed in life: the time was then ten-thirty o'clock!
The artist would have found it a little too luxurious for good taste a little over-toned in the richness of draperies, the heavy scent of flowers, the subtleties of half-screened divans there was something more than feminine something feline. To Raymond Owen, however, it was ideal.
The sigh of the mountain breeze came soothingly across the lake to lull their slumbers as they lay down to rest, side by side, in the little bungalow cots of which a dozen ranged the length of the great water-side dormitory half-open, half-screened. Yet Pem fell asleep imploring Ta-Te and lost the little record altogether in her dreams!
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