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Clemens was not eager to go to Florence, but his imagination was taken as it would have been in the old-young days by the notion of packing his furniture into flexible steel cages from his house in Hartford and unpacking it from them untouched at his villa in Fiesole. He got what pleasure any man could out of that triumph of mind over matter, but the shadow was creeping up his life.
Reaching the cabin, she pushed gently against the door, knowing that if it opened, Kenmore was free to enter. Farwell was in and, when Priscilla stood near him, seemed to travel back from a far place before he saw her. Farwell was an old-young man; he cultivated the appearance of age, but only the very youthful were deceived.
You've seen them at the real Bohemian restaurants; young men mad with life and the sense of their own powers; all of them writing, painting, composing, editing mostly talking. Then at other tables the old-young men who have shrugged their shoulders and simmered down like myself; lucky if they haven't taken to drink or drugs to drown regrets.
His was one of those old-young faces, deeply lined, smooth-shaven, the hair clipped short, the flesh ashen-gray, the lips a mere straight slit, yielding a merciless expression; but the eyes, surveying me coldly, were the noticeable feature. They looked to be black, not large, but deep set, and with a most peculiar gleam, almost that of insanity, in their intense stare.
Most of them creditable to me, too. One child to whom I paid court when she was five years old and I eight still lives in Hannibal, and she visited me last summer, traversing the necessary ten or twelve hundred miles of railroad without damage to her patience or to her old-young vigor.
In a few minutes I was bowing with a moderate degree of respect before Mlle. de Chantverdun, and making her such adroit excuses that she was enchanted with me. Happiness had restored my presence of mind my deferential manner and apologies delighted the poor old-young lady.
There could not be anything at Gray Manor as nice as Jimmie's and my bird-cage. But I want Jimmie to have his chance " Left alone, Cornelius Allendyce found himself haunted by Robin's "Jimmie must be awfully lonesome." What a strange pair the quaint old-young girl living in a world which circled around this father the father, by the girl's own assertion, "depending" upon the girl.
"May I turn and walk with you?" he asked. "I'm finding myself disagreeable company today." "You did look dull," she said, as they set out together, "dull as a love-sick German. But I supposed it was your executive pose." "I was thinking that I'll be old before I know it." His old-young face was shadowed for an instant. "Old that's an unpleasant thought, isn't it?"
But let us be just enough to admit that there may be old-young coxcombs as well as old-young coquettes.
Tita running up the slope at this moment like a young deer a steep embankment that would have puzzled a good many people puts an effectual end to the conversation. Mr. Gower graciously deigning to give her half of his rug, she sinks upon it gladly. She likes Gower. Lady Rylton calls to her. "Not on the grass, Tita dearest," cries she, in her little shrill, old-young voice.
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