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The Sea-Wolf

CHAPTER XXIII
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She was a delicate, ethereal creature, swaying and willowy, light and graceful of movement.
It never seemed to me that she walked, or, at least, walked after the ordinary manner of mortals.

Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.
She was like a bit of Dresden china, and I was continually impressed with what I may call her fragility.

As at the time I caught her arm when helping her below, so at any time I was quite prepared, should stress or rough handling befall her, to see her crumble away.

I have never seen body and spirit in such perfect accord.

Describe her verse, as the critics have described it, as sublimated and spiritual, and you have described her body.


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