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Vi gazed at the pictures, small paintings of two famous Spanish dancers. One was beautiful, languorous, carnal; the other was neither languorous nor carnal despite her wonderful body, and she was certainly not beautiful. Vi laid the second picture down and held the first. Then almost unconsciously she reached out her hand for the discarded picture.
The floor, shining, polished as a mirror, reflected the swaying forms of the dancers as they whirled to and fro. Beyond, on the grand stair-case, the guests ascended slowly in groups of twos and threes, flecking the marble with splashes of colour, radiant, vivid, like clusters of rose leaves strewn on the steps. The perfume was intoxicating, languorous.
"He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me." "You know you believe it all," said Lord Henry, looking at him with his dreamy, languorous eyes. "I will go out to the garden with you. It is horribly hot in the studio. Basil, let us have something iced to drink, something with strawberries in it." "Certainly, Harry.
H. Stackton Dunckley protested that absence from the ladies, even for so short a time, would completely spoil his evening receiving in reward a languorous glance from Lady Durwent. Johnston Smyth, who had done more than ample justice to the wines, offered to 'pink' at fifty yards any man who would consider the proposition for a moment.
As the lights faded Alice, with the pretty languorous gesture I so well remembered, opened her fan the fan of ostrich plumes, that became a blur of white that held my eye through the dusk after the curtain rose. Alice, Montani, and the fan! To this combination I had now to add the new element introduced into the situation by the apparent familiar acquaintance of Alice and Mrs.
By chance, the record left on the machine had been that of the latest tango, and as she listened to the pulsing, languorous strains, Willa commenced half-unconsciously to sway in rhythm with its lilting harmony. The next minute she was dancing, but not in the dull, mincing fashion in which she had so recently been coached.
It had been a warm season, warm and rich, sun-kissed and languorous, like the fruit, like the Italian women.... Leave out the women, but try to feel again the sun of Venice! He tried, but the cold of his prison fought with the sun. Then suddenly sprang clamor without. The uproar increased. He rose, he heard the bolts open, the door open. In came light and voices. "Captain Rullock!
But after all, the counselings of Miss Avery, of whom he also saw much that spring, better suited his disgruntled humor. "They are incapable of appreciating you," said she, a siren in the red motor. "You owe it to yourself to enter a larger field. And" so ran the languorous voice "to your friends."
And Marsa was happy with the languorous happiness which nature gives, her forehead cooled by the fresh breeze, her eyes rested by the deep green which hid the shoes, her whole being refreshed by the atmosphere of peace which fell from the trees.
And ever, in the middle of the moving light among the languorous dancers, the snakes pursued the woman! "Do you do this often?" wondered King, in a calm aside to Rewa Gunga, turning half toward him and taking his eyes off the dance without any, very, great effort. Rewa Gunga clapped his hands and the dance ceased. The woman spirited her snakes away.
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