F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Capitolo 68
the vivacity of his/her face what oval is beautifully. Seen by the high-beam
gaslight its complexion is singly clear and pale. But that
freshness that one admirer had earned a lot her, and what you/he/she gave this way
a charm to the roundness of first youth, we look in vain for. And
I am still there a softness and delicacy on his/her well-cut and
female characteristic-a child-as the sweetness in her smile-a shine of
the thoughtfulness in those great, flashing black eye-one expression of
melancholy in that to short intervals we read her/it to us thought-a
playing incessant of those dark and long eyelashes that dress her/it
charms with an irresistible, a soul-inspiring seductiveness. His/her
dresses, of piece of antiquariato of moire, it is same chasteness; his/her delicious bust
symmetry; it the efforts as slightly as if you/he/she is touched from of the kind zephyr.
From an eyebrow of Haidean it falls and afloat that undulate him on
marble-how shoulders, the massive folds of his/her black and shining hair.
Nature had been prodigal indeed of its gifts on this equitable creature, to
of who charms that any painter could give to a more fascinating touch. This
girl with which elastic footstep and erect carriage oddly contrast
the languid forms around her, are Ann Bonard, the neglected one the
betrayed. There passages and repasses her, now contemplating her/it with
a curious fixed look, murmuring then imperceptibly, a man of corpulent figure,
in mask and cloak. He touches with a delicate hand his/her look-watch,
we see two acute eyes, lascivious that peer at through the domino; him
folds his/her arm and breaks some second, as whether to observe the metal
of his/her companion, then crosses and it recrosses his/her run. To the moment his
unusual gait attracts its attention, a curl of sarcasm is seen
on his/her lip, its eyebrow darkens, its dark shine of globes as of fire,--everybody
the heart-burnings of a soul aims with shame to hasten you/he/she is seen
and it does horrible those characteristics that but a moment in front of shone