She looked
directly at his face, his perpetually graying hair, his
hawkish nose, his long cheekbones. The cork came out with a loud pop, and Anna could not help wondering how it
must sound to the patient little crowd outside. And she, she in her own person too, was this eternal
Bios, beginning again its recurrent journey to selection and multiplication and
failure or survival. The business of
serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect
on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. "Every brick I take out," cried Jack, as fresh rubbish clattered down the chimney,
"brings me nearer my mother. Sheppard! when I see her thus, and think of all she has
endured, of all she may yet have to endure, I could almost pray for her release
from trouble. 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.
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