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They knew that Kalora weighed less than one hundred and twenty pounds. She was tall, lithe, slender, sinuous, willowy, hideous. The fact that poor old Count Malagaski had made many unsuccessful attempts to fatten her was a stock subject for jokes of an unrefined and Turkish character.
The red-headed Babe passed her with a genial nod, and, shortly after, Lois Denham, the willowy recipient of sunbursts from her friend Izzy of the hat-checks, came by in company with a sallow, hawk-faced young man with a furtive eye, whom Jill took correctly to be Izzy himself.
The willowy emerald-green Princess, who came from Fairyland, I am sure, shook hands with us and gave us tea and sugar and cream and a buttonhole, heavily scented, likewise a cigar, and if I hadn't had fever and could have spoken her language I'd have been enchanted. But first I should have described the wonderful umbrellas that ornamented the camp.
All-a-light foh him. Two shillin' to pay, please." The mate dragged a coin from his pocket and dropped it on the bar. He turned at last to the others, as though he now first noticed them. "What's back of here?" he asked abruptly, motioning as he spoke to the still palms which poised over the galvanized iron roofs. "How d'you mean?" A tall, willowy man in pajamas answered him surprisedly.
That debutante slouch would kill a queen's coronation costume." Myrtle straightened, slumped again. "I can't help it if I am willowy" listlessly. "Your hair!" Myrtle's hand went vaguely to her head. "I can't have you wear it that way." "Why, this is the French roll!" protested Myrtle, offended. "Then do it in a German bun!" snapped Emma. "Any way but that. Will you walk, please?" "Walk?" dully.
Nature had perhaps intended Leslie to be plump and ruddy, but modern fashion had decreed otherwise, and, with half the girls of her own age and set, Leslie took saccharine in her tea, rarely touched sweets or fried food, and had the supreme satisfaction of knowing that she was actually too slim and too willowy for her height, and interestingly colourless into the bargain.
But they had good material, for Madeline, unlike most women of her race, in her childhood had escaped the carrying of heavy burdens and the toil of the trail. Besides, she was a clean-limbed, willowy creature, possessed of much grace which had not hitherto been realized. It was this grace which the men strove to bring out and knock into shape.
She darted away from us, her figure as tall, more youthful, more willowy, and more charming than the other, though singularly like in movement and in outline. The resemblance between the beautiful woman and the beautiful girl produced the effect of contrast, and ruthlessly dug a chasm of years between them. Suddenly, as they stood face to face, Mrs.
J. P. knows the innermost thoughts that pass through Ed's mind. There's another secret between us three." He smiled half-sadly. "I suppose, though, your father knows this one that Ed was to have married J. P.'s only sister. She was tall and willowy and just like a flower, and she died a week before the wedding day.
She was a slender girl, rather above the medium height, a girl with dark earnest eyes and heavy coils of brown, lustrous hair, and a grave, sweet face, whereon already there were traced indelibly lines that told of responsibility and work and care. She dressed simply, inexpensively, yet with a certain style that well became the willowy grace of her figure.
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