. And with his daughter?’
‘He wrote to Jarvis from an inn in France, saying that he had married
Mademoiselle Valade, and that his baby naturally belonged with her father. ‘Whereas my need was very great indeed. She roves the blue fields of the North, with
the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost—
mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships
and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her
and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange
words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume
of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet
trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of
danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires
and her mouth full of pearls!
"With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. The uncanny directness of those gray eyes, the absence of diffidence,
the beauty of the face in profile (full, it seemed a little too broad to make for
perfect beauty), the mellow voice that came full and free, without hesitance, all
combined to mark her as the most unusual young woman he had ever met. I’m very resourceful, you
know. One comes at last to the step from dreams to
reality. "
"Winny," said Thames, tenderly, "something which that self-sufficient fool has
said has so far done me a service in enabling me to speak upon a subject which I
have long had upon my lips, but have not had courage to utter. Then she
had a baby and became as old as any really grown-up person, or older, and very
dull. Earles recovered his spirits. They were silent and no
longer observant, being more or less exhausted by the tedious action of the
chairs. Yes, this was a little better.
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