Without betraying the slightest confusion, or making a single remark, he quietly resumed his seat. Women are made like the potter’s vessels —either for worship or contumely, and are withal fragile vessels. Melusine got to her feet and, tucking her shoulder under his arm on the uninjured side, put her arm about him to hold his waist, and thus contrived to take most of his weight. For a few minutes he kept them at bay. They then took off their boots, and crept stealthily up stairs, treading upon the point of their toes so cautiously, that not a board creaked beneath their weight. To Ah Cum, who was watching her covertly, the smile was like a bit of unexpected sunshine. She read on and on, now thrilled by the swiftly moving drama, now enraptured by the tender passages of love. "Do nothing without consulting my father—your father, Thames," she implored. “It is a great art,” she said in broken English. 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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