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having a much weaker light, could hardly be discerned by the performers in the dance. The music was now rattling on, and the ladies in their foam-like dresses were busily threading and spinning about the floor, when Faith, casually looking up into her brother's face, was surprised to see that a change had come over it. At the end of the quadrille he leant across to her before she had time to speak, and said quietly, 'She's here!' 'Who?' said Faith, for she had not heard the words of the coachman. 'Ethelberta.' 'Which is she?' asked Faith, peeping through with the keenest interest. 'The one who has the skirts of her dress looped up with convolvulus flowers--the one with her hair fastened in a sort of Venus knot behind; she has just been dancing with that perfumed piece of a man they call Mr. Ladywell--it is he with the high eyebrows arched like a girl's.' He added, with a wrinkled smile, 'I cannot for my life see anybody answering to the character of husband to her, for every man takes notice of her.' They were interrupted by another dance being called for, and then, his fingers tapping about upon the keys as mechanically as fowls pecking at barleycorns, Christopher yilai: skechers mbt shoes clearance louis vuitton outlet jordan heels for women On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Publishedabmbpf |
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