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Updated: May 7, 2025
This gown is a revealment of my genius." It was a pale blue crêpe, silver-touched and graceful; a long, heavy, silver cord held it at the waistline, and the loose, lacy sleeves made the slim arms look very lovely. "If ever I needed bucking, Pat, dear, I need it now!" whispered Joan, and her eyes dimmed. She heard the pleasant bustle below; the light laughter, the cheery calls.
He paced the corridor, nodding here and there, pausing for a moment to chat with this or that personage, affable, noncommittal, Chesterfieldian, handsome and distinguished in his clean, silver-touched middle age. Inwardly he was fretting for their appearance his débutante and Mme. Robin Hood. Of course they must do the conventional thing and be late.
Evening after evening, by twos and threes, they sit in the moonlight under the silver-touched vines and dewy blossoms of the porch, listening to the far-away cry of night-birds, the murmur of drowsy bells upon cattle stirring in sleep, or of human voices idealized by remoteness into faint haunting music, while before them white light touches the wooded heights of Cliefden, distant heights full of picturesque mystery and passionate history, touches and idealizes into a semblance of poetic realism the sham ruins of Hedsor, and spreads a pearly sheen over the unseen Valley of the Shadow of Light through which winds the quiet Thames.
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