The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-30

whole truth OF rms history, nc Idlt'S w.
ones eve was almost wholly busted with
the strange appearance of his long, large
4op-gum front tooth. Not that the com
panion tooth was not over ordinary SIZE
but it was not so large as its mate-at
least if it were, ii failed to get the same
attention from those who encountered IT'S
clammy and chilly effects. 1t seemed al
most trifing for two young men to be
struck instantaneousy in the same way
bv the same tooth 1t would have seemed
nerhaus more dignified, 100, certainly more
co;lsonant with more earnest Thoughts
had they let the matter of this tooth pass
unremarked. nut Iney did not. 1t has been
stated that it was a long tooth: that
statement will not be diverged from one
hair. 1t was apparently sound toocn'
nainfullv sound and the whlteness OF IL
was the whiteness almost of marble. III
conld not have been a false tooth: for the
owner must have known or he ought 10
have felt. that in gay Paris where, IN MS
peculiar vocation, at least, nearly all those
whom he met were strangers, hrst I'M
nressions of him would necessarily De
drawn somewhat from the behavior OF
this tooth as we'll as from other outward
appearances of himself. Therefore, the
logic of the situation forced the two young
men. who were just idle enough to allow
themselves mentally slightly to agltate the
matter further tG admit one another
that had the tooth peen false the owner
vould in the natural order of things nave
had it frightened up. Instead of that,
this tombstone-white. thickish bone
ouivered under the slightest prevention
from the lips. 1t may not be perfectly
truthful to say "quivered," it may be
exact to say that it was sensitively obe-
dent in motion to every opening of the
lin whether by smile or otherwise. W hlle
these lips were not thick, they lost the
quality of thinness. if, to keep entirely
ont of error. they were thin at all, by
the constant mostness of them specially
toward the corners They might, too,
have been called unstable lips, lips that
move raggedly forward-like, that glide
over the teeth either straightwise or up
and-down-wise as if there were easy oil
on the inner membrane. There were hit
tie pin-point twitchings, too, about them
and about twice the amount of nervous
ter or talk should have caused in the
normal lips. Nor would this have been
entirely intolerable had it not been for
the protrusion of the toothy thing: for
perhaps it should not after all be called
a tooth like other everyday teeth.
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Montague and Neville were sitting
loungily about a forenoon bottle of Bass
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as light a June picture as a blue June
morning could make it. swan-appear-
ing blonde of ten or more years played
near the fiower-fringed fountain in the
centre. Perhaps it was so trifing thing
as the presence of two nurses .daintly
skirted and capped and aproned With
crisp fittings of white, with their Partisan
accent all attention over this one child
that caused these two young American
blades to take note of the lofty bearing
of this chid-charge. And yet her type
was not of the entirely uncommon blonde
unless the hair were softer and thicker
and lighter golden. 1t was, however, when
her face was at one moment turned full
upon the young men that the wondrous
distinction of her blue eyes-eyes of vol
ume-and bearing caused remark when
it were entirely irrelevant to repeat here
There is no use in going through here with
the hackneyed story words used by every
body who wants to describe command
ing girl-child, such as thin, plant lips,
straight Grecian nose meeting the fore
head without that dip which separates
the real. royal thing from the common
workaday nose of women and girls who
have beautiful noses as opposed to bril-
nf III est1
ton: the oval of the face of tendril curling
lines. and ears-of course the regula-
ton story-word is shell-like-yet these ears
were more than this. with pearl
like. dinphanons and all the other
story-words which are in this manner be-
ing avoided here. Then the hair just
touched the temples so lingeringly.
All these marks of more than
the ordinary had the child OF
the ocean blue eyes swept with violet
emotions This last is, as far is known, a
new invention of words made for these
eyes. both because it is true invention.
and because escape is thus made from
the other terms by which eyes have been
described. She was a straight little girl
and tall for her age, with that elasticity
and thinness and length of ankle, and
thaT carnage OF TIE uedu upOH tuC htbh
which gives woman a large percentage
of her power Her head turned towards
the two loungers with somewhat of the
musical motion of lark's head If one
will watch that songster on switch
branch upon an early morning. Then
there was that certain tendency back
ward Of the not too robust chest and
shoulders which results in not unadmira-
BILE self-esteem without any of it's stiff
ness. OF course under ordinary circum-
stances it would be entirely conventional
here to drop into the race-horse Inquire
and tell about the proud curl of her nos
trils of the delicate but enduring 1.-the
ness of her limbs and body, but this is an
extraordinary case, and it will not be
done But her nose was cut clean as a
diamond. of perfect proportion to give
brilliant effect in it's straightness consid-
cred with relation to the somewhat wide
mouth, but not too wide. Let all words
be, in fine, thrown aside. and let it be
said that this child of yellow hair was 4
most subtle person, one of those persons
whose atmosphere may be the resultant
of perfectly ungross physical suggestion,
but at any rate whose atmosphere is con-
sidered rather than the person. So let the
little girl in the flesh be forgot and her
envelope, only, of magnetic essence be
registered.
''That is the daughter of the Russian
Grand Duke who is here incog" This