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It reminds me of women's caprices and fancies always on the jump! Yes! don't frown, Manella! that is so! Now let me see what Mr. Sam Gwent has to say that he didn't say before " and seating himself, he opened the letter and began to read. Manella watched him from under the shadow of her long-fringed eyelids her heart beat quickly and uncomfortably.
"Yes, Governor of Iowa; and James' wife lived with him. She was Melinda Jones." "Yes, yes," and Ethie's foot beat the carpet thoughtfully, while her eyes were cast-down, and the great tears gathered slowly in the long-fringed lids, then they fell in perfect showers, and laying her head in Aunt Barbara's lap she sobbed piteously.
"And I haven't a soul to consult." Another "Oh!" and an upward glance of two lovely long-fringed eyes. "And I think you have a kind, affectionate heart, Fluff." "I have." "And you won't misunderstand a man who is half distracted?" "I am sorry you are half distracted. No, I won't misunderstand you." "That is right, and what I expected.
"Why, no; nor mother didn't either, but after father died she had to do something. Father was a kind of a lawyer, and left her poor." "Do you wish to go away from here, Rosamond?" There were tears on the long-fringed eye-lashes as the young girl replied, "No, sir; I'd like to live here always, but there's nothing for me to do." "Unless you go to school. How would you like that?"
Silky dark hair curved back beneath her close-fitting hat like a raven's wing, sheathing her small, fine head. There was the same silky darkness, too, of brow and lashes, and when she lifted her long-fringed lids they revealed a pair of sad and very lovely eyes, the colour of a purple pansy.
In a half-reclining attitude of indolently graceful ease, the Princess Ziska watched from beneath the slumbrous shadow of her long-fringed eyelids the approach of her now scarcely-to-be controlled lover.
Peyton looked as though he would have liked to follow his Excellency's example, but was fain to content himself with the lady's hand, resigned to the respectful pressure of his lips with a charming blush and a dropping of long-fringed eyelids. "Where is your father, sweetheart?" demanded the Governor. "Ah! your Excellency, he is unfortunate.
He was followed by 'Twin Sisters, who, as 'Refined Singers and Dancers, appeared in sweeping confections of white silk, with deeply drooping, widely spreading white hats, and long-fringed white parasols heaped with artificial roses, and sang a little tropical romance, whose burden was 'Under the bámboo-trée, brought in at unexpected intervals.
It has been a most interesting afternoon." As the door closed behind them, Hallward flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face. It was, in its way, a very charming room, with its high panelled wainscoting of olive-stained oak, its cream-colored frieze and ceiling of raised plaster-work, and its brick-dust felt carpet strewn with long-fringed silk Persian rugs.
Rudolf did not answer, but offered her his arm, which she took shyly, glancing at him from time to time out of her deer-like eyes with the long-fringed lashes. Ragged and untidy as she was, she looked like a princess; and he in his fine clothes, soiled and torn as they were, looked nevertheless like a real fairy-tale prince!
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