Excerpt: ... hand swept down and closed his eyes, and he lay back in his chair entranced. Madame le Claire sat long and looked at him yearningly. She smoothed back the hair from his brow with many soft touches, and stooped and softly kissed his forehead. Then she lightly tapped his wrist, and sharply said, "Wake!" Eugene Brassfield opened his eyes with a smile. There was something still faintly suggestive of tenderness in the look with which Madame le Claire regarded him, and he returned it with the air of a man to whom ...
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Excerpt: ... hand swept down and closed his eyes, and he lay back in his chair entranced. Madame le Claire sat long and looked at him yearningly. She smoothed back the hair from his brow with many soft touches, and stooped and softly kissed his forehead. Then she lightly tapped his wrist, and sharply said, "Wake!" Eugene Brassfield opened his eyes with a smile. There was something still faintly suggestive of tenderness in the look with which Madame le Claire regarded him, and he returned it with the air of a man to whom such looks are neither unusual nor repugnant. "We were just talking," said she, with the air of reminding him of a topic from which he had wandered, "about your wedding. When is it to be?" "The appointed date," said he, "is April the fifth; but, of course, I shall move for an earlier one if possible." "I should think," remarked Madame le Claire, "that the date fixed would give Miss Waldron all too short a time for preparation." "From a woman's standpoint," said Mr. Brassfield, "it probably seems so. But you and I can surely find matters of more mutual interest to talk about, can't we?" "Perhaps," said the girl, "but I don't think of anything just now. Do you?" "Well, for one thing," said he, "I have just found out what makes your eyes so beautiful." "Wouldn't it be just as well to cease discovering things of that kind? It's so short a time to the fifth of April, you know." "I've made all my money," said Brassfield, "by never quitting discovering. I like it. And this last find especially." "I think there are other lines of investigation," said she, "which demand your time and attention." "Oh, pshaw!" said he. "Don't be so prudish. You know that your eyes are beautiful, and you are not really offended when I tell you so. Such eyes are the books in which I like to read
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Orson Lowell, Illustrator. Very Good. No Jacket. Book Clean decorated American trade binding (signed binding-monogram RR on cover-Rome Richards). First edition, with "January" on the copyright page. Clan green cloth boards with light green and red decoration, red and gold lettering on cover, red lettering on spine. Tiny spots of wear to top spine edge, light wear to cloth on rear board. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean pages and endpapers-no names, writing or marks. Wonderful illustrations throughout by Orson Lowell, including frontispiece with clean tissue guard. 320 pages.
