This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...you think it remembers children--many children--that were born and grew old and died? Didn't it surely see the fortunes of a noble house rise to the peak of pomp and then fall and fall to the degradation of generations who could send a peach-bloom vase to market for ten cash worth of oil?" "Yes," said Bourne, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...you think it remembers children--many children--that were born and grew old and died? Didn't it surely see the fortunes of a noble house rise to the peak of pomp and then fall and fall to the degradation of generations who could send a peach-bloom vase to market for ten cash worth of oil?" "Yes," said Bourne, "but the dearest of its memories must be the awakening from its long black sleep to see the wonder and the adoration of a little girl, all legs and eyes, perched upon a stool in the gray light of the shabby houseboat. My dear, with each word that you speak and each moment that we spend together I love you more. Let's stop dreaming or my heart will burst. Come back to this room; listen to the music, not with your head, but with your feet. Don't you want to be human and play for a little while on the plane of body and rhythm?" "I long to," said the girl, "only I'm afraid. Do you think that while I've been talking to you I haven't been watching the feet and the sway of the dancers? Sometimes at the place where I am living the music has come up to my room quite clearly and I have danced all alone as I have seen others dancing. Is it very wonderful?" "It can be," said Bourne, arising. "Come along. Don't stop to think. Let yourself go; give yourself not to me, but to the music." She arose, stood poised on the edge of doubt for an instant, then took her determination and let him lead her to the floor. His hand trembled as he slipped his arm around her; he was swept back to that gloriously sensitive age when the heart leaps to the throat at the touch of the one girl's fingers, when to press secretly her flowing hair to one's lips is to drink deep of the elixir of the gods, when to...
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