Capitolo 2
"Foolish--affettatamente*--puppet pink and white color smiling!" she scolded squintingly,
"I will teach him whether to seem a true girl!"
Very threateningly she raised him to her it walks in point of feet and it thrusts her/it
straight of ardent face, bodily above in the moulten, elusive,
rapid-silver face in the mirror. Holes for carnation, blue for blue the gold for
gold, dollishes cunningly smile for dollish cunningly smiles, the mirror mocked her/it boiling
inside irritability.
"Because--curse You!" she gasped. "Because--curse You! Because, you seemed more human
what that when you left the Valley of Annapolis three years ago! There was
at least--torn then in Your face, and--the cinders, and--Your mother is best
suggestion and the worry on the mortgage, and--and--the blush of Joe
The kiss of Hazeltine!"
Furtively with the point of his/her index-finger she started to cross her/it
cheek pink and imperturbable color for the stain where the kiss of Joe Hazeltine had
previously it blazed.
"My hands are correct entirely, in every way!" she admitted with endless relief.
Triumphantly she raised both strong, it stump-touched, exaggeratedly
executive hands to the level of his/her blue and childish eyes and it was standing
observing the effect mirrored with ineffable satisfaction. "Because my hands
be--the beau!" she exulted. "Because they is perfectly--the beau! Because they is
marvelous! Because they is--." Then suddenly and fearfully she gave a
the small cry screeches. "But they doesn't go with my foolish doll-face!" her
weeping. "Because, they doesn't do! They doesn't do! They goes with the Senior Surgeon
eyes of Heidelberg that knit the eyelashes! They goes with the grey surly some Senior Surgeon
make a sermon to! They goes with the--! Oh! what will I do? What will I do?"
Confusedly, with his/her truncate finger-points goaded deep in every tired
facial muscle that she could grab, she staggered toward the air, and
allowing to fall down in the first friendly chair that has beaten against her
knees, sat, while fixing out in absent way through the urban and monotonous roofs that