[The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn]@TWC D-Link bookThe Man and the Moment CHAPTER XVI 3/13
I have not told you about her mouth--it is very curved and full and awfully red--and there is the most adorable dimple up at one side of it, I am sure the people in the ghost world that she meets must awfully want to kiss it." Sabine frowned.
This was rather too intimate a description, but bashfulness or diffidence she knew were not among Mr.Arranstoun's qualities--or defects. "I think I am tired of hearing what this ghost looks like, I want to know what does she do? Aren't you petrified with fright ?" "Not in the least," Michael told her, "but you will just have to hear about her hair--when it comes down it is like lovely bronze waves--and her little feet, too--they are exquisite enough in shoes and stockings, but without----!" Here he had the grace to look at his fish which was just being handed. A flush as pink as the pinkest rose came into Sabine's cheeks--he was perfectly disgraceful and this was of course in shocking taste--but when he glanced up again his attractive blue eyes had her late look of an innocent kitten's in them and he said in an angelic tone: "She has not a fault, you may believe me, and she jumps up after the fall into the room, and sits in one of my big chairs!" "Does she scold you for your sins as denizens of another sphere ought to do ?" Mrs.Howard was constrained to ask. "No--she is a little angel and always tells me that sins are forgiven." "Does she come often ?" "Every single evening when I am alone--and--sometimes, she melts into my arms and stays with me all night.
Binko--Ah!--you remember Binko!"-- for Sabine's face had suddenly lit up--and at this passionate joy and emotion flooded Michael's and they both stopped dead short in their talk and Sabine took a quick breath that was almost a gasp. "I remember--nothing," she said very fast, "how should I? The girl whose ghost you are speaking of ceased to exist five years ago--but I--recognize the portrait--I knew her in life--and she told me about the dog--he had fat paws and quantities of wrinkles, I think she said." "Yes, that is Binko!" and his master beamed rapturously.
"He is the most beautifully ugly bulldog in the world, but the poor old boy is getting on, he is seven years old now.
Would not you like to see him--again--I mean from what you have heard!" "I love animals, especially dogs--but tell me, is he not afraid of the ghost ?" Michael drank some champagne, even under all his unhappiness he was greatly enjoying himself.
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