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 arrangement had been made by the town
matchmaker, a frightening old oak of a man. In Singapore that had been her only dissipation: a dozen pairs of silk
stockings. "
"And what should a young man like this one have to forget?"
Prudence demanded to know. “Hainault, Celeste’s friend. He dined, and then pleaded a political engagement. It was clear by the look on her
face that she decided to leave the house immediately.
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