[The Common Law by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Common Law CHAPTER III 11/24
I think he is pretty nearly the handsomest man I ever saw; don't you ?" "He's handsome, cultivated, a charming conversationalist, and a really great painter," said Neville, drily. She looked absently at the melon; tasted it: "He is very romantic ...
when he laughs and shows those beautiful, even teeth....
He's really quite adorable, Kelly--and so gentle and considerate--" "That's the Latin in him." "His parents were born in New York." She sipped her coffee, tried a pigeon egg, inquired what it was, ate it, enchanted. "How thoroughly nice you always are to me, Kelly!" she said, looking up in the engagingly fearless way characteristic of her when with him. "Isn't everybody nice to you ?" he said with a shrug which escaped her notice. "Nice ?" She coloured a trifle and laughed.
"Not in _your_ way, Kelly.
In the sillier sense they are--some of them." "Even Querida ?" he said, carelessly. "Oh, just like other men--generously ready for any event.
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