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Novelty established them as temporary belles; they were petted by their hostesses, attended by small cohorts of admirers, and formed the centre for a round of festivities specially arranged to enliven their visits. Delia Vanuxem bore away the palm from all such visitors past or to come.
The end had been that the lonely unhappiness of his youth had seemed a thing so far away that it was rather like a dream. Only Delia Vanuxem was not quite like a dream. Her pitying girlish face and the liquid darkness of her uplifted eyes always came back to him clearly when he called them up in thought.
At Philadelphia I separated from my traveling companion, Mr. Gray, who was obliged to return to his home. From Philadelphia, Mr. Haldeman and Mr. Lea accompanied me to Bristol, where Mr. Vanuxem possesses an important collection of fossils from ancient deposits, duplicates of which he promises me. Mr.
The scents the wind wafted to him, the occasional sound of a far-off night-bird, the rustle of the leaves brought things back to him things he had felt in his youth. There had been nights like this in the days when he had been a big, clumsy young fellow, wild with hopeless love for Delia Vanuxem.
Suddenly Rupert turned to his partner. He made her a bow; he was a graceful young fellow. "Thank you, Miss Vanuxem. Thank you for the dance. Good-night. I am going home." "Are you?" exclaimed little Miss Vanuxem. "But it is so early, Mr. De Willoughby." "I have stayed just ten minutes too long now," said Rupert. "Thank you again, Miss Vanuxem. Good-night."
He remembered what Stamps had said of her youth and her pale face, and he thought of Delia Vanuxem, and from this thought sprang a sudden recollection of the deserted medical career in which he had been regarded as so ignominious a failure.
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