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A Lady of Quality | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature |
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And being led into the loving boldness by her gratitude, she bent forward and touched with her lips the fair hand resting on the chair's arm. Mistress Clorinda fixed her fine eyes upon her in a new way. "I' faith, it doth not seem fair, Anne," she said. "I should not like to change lives with thee. Thou hast eyes like a shot pheasant--soft, and with the bright hid beneath the dull. Some man might love them, even if thou art no beauty. Stay," suddenly; "methinks--" She uprose from her chair and went to the oaken wardrobe, and threw the door of it open wide while she looked within. "There is a gown and tippet or so here, and a hood and some ribands I might do without," she said. "My woman shall bear them to your chamber, and show you how to set them to rights. She is a nimble-fingered creature, and a gown of mine would give almost stuff enough to make you two. Then some days, when I am not going abroad and Mistress Margery frets me too much, I will send for you to sit with me, and you shall listen to the gossip when a visitor drops in to have a dish of tea." Anne would have kissed her feet then, if she had dared to do so. She blushed red all over, and adored her with a more worshipping gaze than before. |
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