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Updated: May 13, 2025
"At having it all proper." "My dear Marion!" said I, and by way of answer took and kissed her white-gloved, leather-scented hand.... I don't remember much else about the journey, an hour or so it was of undistinguished time for we were both confused and a little fatigued and Marion had a slight headache and did not want caresses.
She held her in a sort of worship, she loved her so that she was fairly afraid of her. As for Ellen, Abby's little, leather-stained, leather-scented figure, strung with passion like a bundle of electric wire, pressing against her, seemed to inform her farthest thoughts. "If I live longer than my father and mother, we'll live together, Abby," said she.
If all the wisdom of the world and all its art all the spoils that it has won from nature, all the fire that it has snatched from heaven were gathered together and divided into heaps, and we could point and say, for instance, these mighty truths were flashed forth in the brilliant salon amid the ripple of light laughter and the sparkle of bright eyes; and this deep knowledge was dug up in the quiet study, where the bust of Pallas looks serenely down on the leather-scented shelves; and this heap belongs to the crowded street; and that to the daisied field the heap that would tower up high above the rest as a mountain above hills would be the one at which we should look up and say: this noblest pile of all these glorious paintings and this wondrous music, these trumpet words, these solemn thoughts, these daring deeds, they were forged and fashioned amid misery and pain in the sordid squalor of the city garret.
Some days he fairly longed so for the old familiar odor of tanned hides, that odor which he had once thought sickened him, that he would go to the shop and stand by the open door, and inhale the warm rush of leather-scented air with keen relish. But he never told this to Sylvia. Henry was not happy.
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