"If that sickly brat lives to be a man," continued Jonathan, rising, "I'll hang him upon the same tree as his father. You have a daughter, no? Madame Ibstock, I think. ‘Oh! little Vee!’ he cried, ‘little Vee!’ and put his face between his hands and sat still for a long time before he broke out again. 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. He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the proffered courtesies. The ball passed over his head, and lodged in the ceiling. By this time, she had so far succeeded in calming herself, that she answered the greetings of the neighbours whom she encountered on her way to the sacred edifice—if sorrowfully, still composedly. Ah! I shall never forget the figure Jack cut on that occasion. There! You are trying to take your hand away. Oh, it is unbearable. But his grief was of short duration. She must be beautiful, but beauty is only the beginning. For what she lacked in appearance, Sheila compensated in gossip.
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