“Eight, Cavendish Square. He made a movement toward her, and then recalled the circumstances of their last conversation in that study. One glance through the window at that picturesque head had been sufficient. 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. "Where did you find it!" asked Wood. " "It's a hopeless job," grumbled Blueskin, "and harm will come of it. “Just hope that the ground doesn’t shift and unearth them. I cannot think he will welcome a French émigré for his granddaughter. Here was a poor half-naked creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand, seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. But I am sick of tearing up letters and hopeless of getting what I have to say better said.
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