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Ah, but there was no doubt about it; my "le bal" neither sounded high nor low, my voice was hoarse in the low notes and not clear in the soprano. I cried with rage, and just then I was informed that the second act of Phedre was about to commence. This drove me wild. I had not my veil on, nor my rings, and my cameo belt was not fastened. I began to murmur: "Le voici!
"But we've got to get to a place where there's work," Daddy reminded him. They went to see the car, and found it a big, strong old Reo, with fairly good tires. So they bought it. Grandma had one piece of jewelry left, besides her wide gold wedding ring a cameo brooch. She traded it for a nanny goat.
The vessel was aground; wild geese were making jubilant shrieks as they cut the water with their fleecy wings, like cameo engraving; the outlaw gazed and gazed, and finally muttered: "Deil's Island, or I'm a billy noodle! I run from it the last time I was yer, an' my blood runs cold to be yer agin; my daddy got his curse from this camp-meetin'."
The face is that of a cameo, the nose is straight, the chin very Greek, the ear delicately modelled; the eyes, admirably shaped, have in them a sort of Attic grace, transmitted from their mothers, and to be handed on to the children.
Then Lily put her hand silently to her neck. "What's that?" "She's just given it to me." Dick approached very near to examine the cameo brooch. "Hm!" he murmured. It was an adverse verdict. And Lily coincided with it by a lift of the eyebrows. "And I suppose you'll have to wear that!" said Dick. "She values it as much as anything she's got, poor old thing!" said Lily. "It belonged to her mother.
Her face is tanned and glowing, and the halo of brilliant black hair only serves to accentuate the glow and to remind us of an exquisite cameo set in jet. She is taller by three inches than the average woman, broad-shouldered, full-breasted, slim-waisted, a figure to haunt a sculptor's memory.
He made a careful tracing of it, took it to the church, and laid it upon the stone. All of its outlines came within the white cross; there was still hope for the cameo. All that winter Father Xavier toiled upon it, exhausting his utmost skill, but never exhausting his patience. His chief trial was in the extreme hardness of the stone, which rapidly wore out his graving tools.
She drew from her bosom a slender gold chain on which was suspended a quaint antique cameo ring of black agate, with a grinning white skull in the centre, and around the oval border of heavily chased gold glittered a row of large and very brilliant diamonds. "I distinctly remember the circumstance." As the minister restored the ring to its owner, she returned it and the chain to its hiding-place.
His dark hair lay close about his well-shaped head; his features were regular and cut bold as an Etruscan cameo; his limbs were elastic and moulded into the supple finish of one whose life has not been set upon level roads.
It was too hot to circumvent him again, and his looking at me could not hurt me. "This is even prettier," he said, presently. "Where did you hide yourself, that we none of us ever saw you before you married?" "I lived rather near here for a little while." "Now you look sad again. I never watched any one's face so much. Yours is not like other people's; you look like a cameo, you know."
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