“But I am judge of that,” said Manning. 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. He would
read the jokes and illustrate them; and after a time I could see the point of a joke
without having it explained to me. ’
‘Oh, she is English?’ repeated Alderley, interest perking up. Stanley came home at a quarter to six—an earlier train by fifteen
minutes than he affected—his sister met him in the hall with a hushed
expression. His letter of credit; probably that was it;
and, observing the strangeness of the room he was in, his first concern on
returning to consciousness would naturally relate to his letter of credit. Then abruptly Mr. I'll
see her myself; and that's more than she bargained for, I'll be sworn. Innumerable little puzzles were instantly solved.
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