“A pale face surrounded by heavy odorous furs. Her movements are shy and nervous. She uses quizzing-glasses. Yes: a brief syllable. A brief laugh. A brief beat of the eyelids. Cobweb handwriting, traced long and fine with quiet disdain and resignation: a young person of quality. I launch forth on an easy wave of tepid speech: Swedenborg, the pseudo-Areopagite, Miguel de Molinos, Joachim Abbas. The wave is spent. Her classmate, retwisting her twisted body, purrs in boneless Viennese Italian: Chec...oltura! The long eyelids beat and lift: a burning needleprick stings and quivers in the velvet iris. High heels clack hollow on the resonant stone stairs. Wintry air in the castle, gibbeted coats of mail, rude iron sconces over the windings of the winding turret stairs. Tapping clacking heels, a high and hollow noise. There is one below would speak with your ladyship. She never blows her nose. A form of speech: the lesser for the greater. Rounded and ripened: rounded by the lathe of intermarriage and ripened in the forcing-house of the seclusion of her race.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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