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Ormiston unfolded the blue paper, crossed by white strips of printed matter, and laid it upon her lap. And as he did so it struck him, aggravating his sense of sinister repetition, that she had on the same rings and bracelets as on that former occasion, and that she wore stone-gray silk too a long traveling sacque, lined and bordered with soft fur. It rustled as she moved.
The Matsushima Kan, returned from China, is anchored before the Garden of the Pleasure of Peace. She is not a colossus, though she has done grand things; but she certainly looks quite formidable as she lies there in the clear light, a stone-gray fortress of steel rising out of the smooth blue.
But they would spoil " She indicated the vague stretch of country, across which mists were drifting like gray ghosts. He drew up a chair at an angle to her own, so that he could study her. "You say you think you know why I've come?" "I was expecting you," she said quietly. He could feel rather than see the steady kindness that was in her stone-gray eyes.
Yet it showed no trace of his unnatural passion to pursue and slay. No doubt that terrible instinct, or lust, was at white heat; but it wore a mask of impenetrable stone-gray gloom. Wetzel spoke briefly.
She was the Joan of Arc of his imagination, who rode on unvanquished across life's battlefields, inspiring to heroism with her shining purity. And he made one other exception Lady Dawn. It was the Lady Dawn of the portrait he exempted, not the Lady Dawn who had mocked him in passing with her steady stone-gray eyes. In a strange way he discriminated between the portrait and the living woman.
A clayey river with flakes of muddy sand, and endless shores of stone-gray gravel; pale-brown fields without a blade of grass, pale-brown slopes, pale-brown hills and dust-colored roads, and here and there near the white houses, groups of black trees, absolutely black bushes and trees.
"Fine fellows these, with good chests and arms, well-knit and gracefully poised by habitually having to creep and crouch, and run and fight. Sunburnt to a deep bronze, one and all. "Their khaki shorts flap and ripple in the sea-wind like a troop of Boy Scouts. Some wear green shirts, and they all wear stone-gray wide-awake hats with pinched crown and broad flat brims."
"Incidentally, I gave our family lawyer a shock, little niece," he went on, as Una, plucking up courage, adjusted her sweater under his head; she began to like this uncle with the pebble-like cast in his stone-gray eye, she began to think that girls Camp Fire Girls, especially, with their love of the fanciful might have more patience with him than others had had.
Despite his determination to avoid a "scene," he felt his bottled-up indignation rising. A light showed in his stone-gray eyes. "Can't you really see that these circumstances are not in the least like those? Did you do me the courtesy to read what I wrote about this so-called 'economy argument' last night?" "Certainly," said West, surprised by the other's tone.
He felt that, were he to do what his instinctive sense of justice had first urged go to Lady Dawn and tell her that her husband had cared for her the painted face would be no longer turned away and the stone-gray eyes no longer averted. He was haunted by the obsession that he would never have any luck till he had vindicated the dead man's memory.
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