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The shining, silken, iridescent dark green of the head and neck; the snowy, sharply defined, narrow collar of white, dividing the green of the neck from the brownish ash of the back and the gorgeous chestnut of the breast; the delicate pure grey of the belly finely pencilled with black lines; the rich, glossy purple of the broad wing-bars shot with green reflections; the jaunty, recurved black feathers of the tail; the smart, citron-yellow of the bill and feet; all these charms were ample excuse for his coxcombry and continual posings.
"The results of his secret work alarm them; then, along he comes, with his braggart, offensive manners, his childish posings, his peacock vanity, and they are lulled into false security. They think what he did was an accident that will not happen again. Why, he fooled even ME!" That is always, with every human being, the supreme test, necessarily. Usually it means nothing.
Nor do I doubt to this day that those who told me these things at school were but preaching a dull and careless round. But now I know that the things they told me were true. God bless you, pen of work, pen of drudgery, pen of letters, pen of posings, pen rabid, pen ridiculous, pen glorified.
Easterns think their western friends mad to dance themselves, when they can so easily get others to do it for them, so they hire a number of women to go through all manner of quaint too often indecent posings and wrigglings before them, to the tune of a nasal chant, which, aided by fiddles, banjos, and tambourines, is being drawled out by the musicians.
And this is the place to mention that at first I was extremely shocked at the tone and bearing of these women, whom everybody extolled; to me they seemed ridiculous in their studied posings, and their grand society manners looked very much like insufferable effrontery.
There was fever in it the fever of fret and mutiny and of a starved self-love. Dora looked at her cousin with less patience than usual perhaps because of the inevitable contrast between Lucy's posings and the true heartaches of the world. 'Lucy, what nonsense! You're just a bit worried, and you make such a lot of it. Why can't you be patient?
And I was wondering again that I, so short a time before, had been crude enough to be fascinated and fooled by those tawdry posings and pretenses.
As soon as we were all assembled, stripping to the buff was the order of the night; then followed charming embraces and mutual posings, so as each should admire the beauties of all. Hands wandered everywhere over every charm, chiefly concentrating on the wonderful and finely developed form of the fascinating Frank-land, whose richness of coal-black hair was so deliciously exciting.
He wasn't much more than medium height or weight, but beautifully developed they were all finely developed men and behind his muscular power was all kinds of nervous energy. And a great way of doing things, not an extra motion of any kind no wasteful flourishes or posings. Not that he didn't have style. Style! he had so much of it that he didn't seem to be half trying.
Yes, and they shall be English, too. And there is one thing you will never know, besides." She laughed through her weeping. "You will never know I made eyes at a windigo." The preenings and posings of a creature whose perfections he once thought were the result of a happy chance had made Louizon roar.
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