The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf StreamGratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope)
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The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream
Gratacap, L. P. (Louis Pope)
Climatic changes -- Fiction; Great Britain -- Fiction
It would be difficult to reproduce in words this difficult and puzzling
young lady; difficult to impart by any means less effective than
painting or have proven ineffective, unless somehow helped out by
personal acquaintanceship--the impression which gave both to her active
admirers, and to those who, for reasons best known to themselves,
had tried to forget her charms. Sally was decidedly pretty, she
readily, under the phases of excitement and gayety moved upward into
the realms of beauty. She was fair, not large, delicately modelled,
with perniciously accomplished eyes that looked out from beneath the
pencilled eye-brows, and under their long lashes, with all kinds of
provocative invitations, that were no sooner accepted than their
desperate little giver revoked them with derision and anger.
Her lips, of course met the most scrupulous requirements of the
critic, and her teeth were as fatally perfect. In coloring she
furnished an example of protean adaptibility. The emblems of fury were
seen in her flushed cheeks, and the tokens of contrition in the same
when they grew pale with grief. This was the secret of her compelling
art. She bowed to all emotions, and as they controlled her they set
upon her face the evidence of their presence, refined by the resistance
of a nature which abhorred wrong feelings, improved by the welcome of a
spirit which was magnanimous and sympathetic. No wonder that Leacraft
loved her. No wonder that a bewildered lot of other young men were in a
similar predicament.
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