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Updated: May 31, 2025
Was it not strange that she whose soul we have hitherto seen bent on deeds or schemes of stern and important nature who never acted without a motive, and whose mind was far too deeply occupied with worldly cares and pursuits to bestow a thought on trifles who, indeed, would have despised herself had she wasted a moment in toying with a flower, or watching the playful motions of a bird, was it not strange that Nisida should have become so changed as we now find her in that island of which she was the queen?
In a clinging, white silk negligée gown, the gossamer folds of which only partially veiled the outlines of a slender, graceful figure, Helen sat at the breakfast table opposite her husband, toying languidly with her knife and fork. It was nearly noon, long past the usual breakfast time, and by every known gastronomical law her appetite should have been on keen edge.
"Rescue the Perishin'; Care for the Dyin'." Then Tess felt Andy's body relax and heard the faintest possible sigh. When Burnett came forth unsuccessful but cheerful, her fingers were toying with her curls, and she broke off her song, question him with her eyes. "There ain't a soul in there," laughed the man.
His laughter had appeared forced. Doubtless he grew weary of the woman he had brought to London. "Dance to-night with all the devil that is in you, my beautiful," said Agapoulos, hurrying into the room. Zahara turned aside, toying with the veils. "They are rich, eh?" she said indifferently. The Spaniard had said so. "Very rich," murmured Agapoulos complacently.
However, their eyes never fell, their hands never met, even as they sat there toying with the grass, for they were as pure, as unconscious of all evil, as were the lofty oaks around them. At last Marie noticed that time was flying. "You know that they expect us back to lunch," she exclaimed. "We ought to be off."
The doctor could not resist the temptation of bringing things to a crisis. Clasping the youth tightly with one arm, he continued his toying with the plaything in a quick exciting manner, apparently without reflecting upon what he was about, uttering, at intervals "Dear me," and "how naughty it was of you; but how pretty she must have been to tempt you to do so, was it not?"
Sprudell sat down in his office chair, toying with a desk-fixture, while Bruce shoved both hands in his trousers' pockets and waited for him to speak. "Burt," he said finally, "I regret this unpleasantness, but the fact is you did not comply with the law you have never recorded and you are located out." "So you've taken advantage of the information with which I trusted you to jump my ground?"
The brook rolled beside him fresh as an infant, toying with the moonlight. He leaned over it, and thrice waywardly dipped his hand in the clear translucence. Was it his own face imaged there? Farina bent close above an eddy of the water. It whirled with a strange tumult, breaking into lines and lights a face not his own, nor the moon's; nor was it a reflection. The agitation increased.
To duties dear, to trouble tender, Thy youthful breast must now surrender, Thy garland's summons must obey. Each toying infantine sensation, Each fleeting sport of youth's creation, Forevermore hath passed away; And Hymen's sacred bond now chaineth Where soft and fluttering love was shrined; Yet for a heart, where beauty reigneth, Of flowers alone that bond is twined.
Or the accepted notion of a poet would appear to be a sort of male odalisque, singing or piano-playing a kind of spiced ideas, second-hand reminiscences, or toying late hours at entertainments, in rooms stifling with fashionable scent. I think I haven't seen a new-published, healthy, bracing, simple lyric in ten years.
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