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Arms and the Woman

CHAPTER VIII
14/23

And let me tell you a lesson which you should have learned among these roses.

Nature teaches us to love all things fresh and beautiful; a rose, a face, a woman's love." "Here," holding forth a great red rose.
"No," said I, "I'll keep this one." She said nothing, but went on snipping a red rose here, a white one there.

She wore gloves several sizes too large for her, so I judged that her hands were small and tender, perhaps white.

And there was a grace in her movements, dispite the ungainly dress and shoes, which suggested a more intimate knowledge of velvets and silks than of calico.

In my mind's eye I placed her at the side of Phyllis.


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