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That is what you can feel for your husband." "Your words cool me," said Madame de Frontignac; "thou art a sweet snow-maiden, and my heart is hot and tired. I like to feel thee in my arms," she said, putting her arms around Mary, and resting her head upon her shoulder. Thus Mary soothed her friend; but every few days this soothing had to be done over, as long as Burr remained in Newport.
The storm, the startling knock at the door, the entrance of the sable knight Hollingsworth and this shadowy snow-maiden, who, precisely at the stroke of midnight, shall melt away at my feet in a pool of ice-cold water and give me my death with a pair of wet slippers! And when the verses are written, and polished quite to your mind, I will favor you with my idea as to what the girl really is."
'You have not grown fatter, I went on, pretending to grumble; 'you are still too transparent, in my opinion; but Jill's snow-maiden has a little life in her. 'Does Jill call me that? she returned, in some surprise. 'Oh, I am quite well: even Giles says so. He declares he is glad to have me back, and poor little Lady Betty quite cried with joy. It was nice, after all, coming home.
Emile Javelle is not far away. Javelle climbed as by a religious impulse; his imagination was filled by Alpine shapes; he, like Ruskin, had forfeited his heart to the invisible snow-maiden that dwells above the clouds. When Javelle was a child his uncle showed him a collection of plants, and amongst them the "Androsace ... rochers du Mont Blanc."
If she gives you her hand, it quite freezes you; her kiss turns you to ice too; her smile is congealing. Ursula tries to thaw her sometimes, but it does no good. She is only Gladys, the snow-maiden. I was too angry with Jill to say a word. Lesbia looked more mystified than ever. 'If she be so cold and sad, how can Ursula be so fond of her? she demanded, in her practical way.
I wish Jill could have heard Gladys talk in this bright, natural way. I am sure she would not have recognised her snow-maiden. There was no weary constraint in her manner to-night, no heavy pressure of unnatural care on her young brow: she seemed too happy to see me again to think of herself at all. When we had talked a little more I began to approach the subject of Eric very gradually.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden, really a lovely creature, oh, I grant you that, Ursula, but she fell under the power of some wicked magician, male or female, some folks say Witch Etta, who changed her into a snow-maiden or an ice-maiden. If she were only alive, this Gladys would be most lovely and bewitching; but, you see, she is only a poor snow-maiden, very white and cold.
Punin, on the contrary, was continually joking with Musa; she responded unwillingly, however. He called her little snow-maiden, little snowflake. 'Why do you give Musa Pavlovna such names? I asked. Punin laughed. 'Because she's such a chilly little thing. 'Sensible, put in Baburin: 'as befits a young girl. 'We may call her the mistress of the house, cried Punin. 'Hey?
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