Manning’s proposal of marriage and finding she was
thinking of the dance. "I am expected, I find," observed Jack, glancing at the well-covered board. She said you HAD some money. The sing-song girl, seeing Ruth, extended her hands and began to chatter rapidly. Love anywhere. 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. . A little darling? Lord in heaven, he had taken leave of his senses. Foundation
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