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An evil smile curved her lips, . . a smile of cold menace and derisive scorn, . . the iris-colored jewel on her breast darted forth vivid flashes of azure, and green and gray, . . the snakes in her hair seemed to rise and hiss at him, . . and then, with an awful unspoken threat written resolvedly on every line of her fair features, . . she let the gold draperies fall softly, and so disappeared, . . leaving him alone with Sah-luma!
However, when she was leaving the Garden, Sara heard her say to the Teacup, as she slipped on an iris-colored kimono and shook down her back plumes, "I think I won't break any rules tomorrow. I think I'll just rest." The next morning Sara took with her only the Kewpie and the Baby.
"Then why didst thou go?" She raised her iris-colored eyes to him, and, bending her blushing face, said, "Thou knowest " Vinicius was silent for a moment from excess of happiness, and began again to speak, as his eyes were opened gradually to this, that she was different utterly from Roman women, and resembled Pomponia alone.
Throughout the days I would hunt and slay; in the nights I would sleep among the branches. But there would come dawns and sunsets when in some corner of this wild temple I would raise a pagan altar, light a tiny wish-wood flame, and conjure the forest's soul of many arms to reach across the earth, bringing me a living, breathing Psyche with iris-colored eyes to gaze into the limpid pool!
The eyes she had not seen for such an agony of years, the strange, deep, iris-colored eyes, there they were now searching her. She stopped her heart in its beating, she stopped her breath, stopped her brain. She became for those few seconds just one thought "I have never seen you. I have never seen you."
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