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Guida did not say a word, but she kissed the hot cheek of the smuggler-pirate's daughter, as in dying one might kiss the face of a friend seen with filmy eyes. When she had gone Guida drew herself up with a shiver. She was conscious that new senses and instincts were born in her, or were now first awakened to life.
Again he felt the light of her eyes, all the bitterness of spirit their surprise, consternation, had once more awakened in him. He looked out at the wagons, the carts, the nondescript vehicles of every description; but a moment before she had been there, so near; he had caught beneath filmy white the glitter of gold, her hair, the only bright thing in that murk and gloom.
There was only a stiffly polite little conversation about colleges and travels, with a word or two about books and plays. Then the callers went home. On the way the boy smiled scornfully to himself. He was trying to picture the beauteous vision he had seen, this unapproachable Princess in her filmy lace gown, standing in the tower window and waving waving to a bit of a house on the opposite hill.
To-day you may see at the laboratory all manner of filmy, diaphanous creatures preserved in alcohol, retaining every jot of their natural contour, and thus offering unexampled opportunities for study en masse, or for being sectioned for the microscope.
Maurice knew that she was going to say a great many other things. But they had reached the Hotel Bungalow. Regretfully they parted. He thought that she was a very remarkable woman indeed. She thought how like her husband he was. Her husband twenty-five years ago. At dinner she still was in black and white. Black covered with filmy laces, soft and shadowy and mysterious.
Then higher still by countless steps conveyed, He gains the summit of a shivering blade, And flirts his filmy wings and looks around, Exulting in his distance from the ground. It is one of his little exquisite pictures.
She visited Linda, almost afraid to show new gowns and new generosity, almost afraid of the constant "Mrs. Carter." "They'll be ruined!" Linda laughed, of the children's summer gowns and the camera and wrist watch that transported Julia and Josephine to Paradise. This rustling and perfumed Harriet, with the flowered little French hat, and the filmy little odd gowns, was almost bewildering.
The spirt of flame and the little jet of filmy blue smoke extorted a sharp ejaculation of astonishment from those who were near enough to notice it, but it was as nothing compared with the shout of mingled amazement, terror, and relief that went up when the huge beast stumbled, fell forward on his head, turned a complete somersault, and lay still, slain at the very instant when, having overtaken the fugitive, he had lowered his head to impale the shrieking man upon his horns.
"I had it done in Easterly's New Jersey mills according to an old plan of mine. I'm going to make cloth like that right in this county some day," and he chuckled gayly. But Zora was striding up and down the halls, the blood surging in her ears. After they were gone she came back and closed the doors. She dropped on her knees and buried her face in the filmy folds of the Silver Fleece. "I knew it!
At that moment, the upturned, filmy eyes rolled convulsively a spasm passed along the body and the lips, yet warm with kissing, quivered into everlasting rest. A word from her husband told Nest all. She slid down from her seat, and lay by her little son as corpse-like as he, unheeding all the agonizing endearments and passionate adjurations of her husband.
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