Identifier: girlguardsman00blac (find matches)
Title: The girl and the guardsman
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Black, Alexander, 1859-1940
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ithout coldness, that insome ways was harder to express oncanvas than the elusive mystery, thefeminine secret of her eyes. What a mockery such a shadow ofher now was! The painted lips werenot sullied by the things she had said;but for this very reason the whole 8 I 13 THE GIRL &- THE GUARDSMAN face had become to him like that ofone who was dead. The other Edithhad gone out of his life. By a trickof fate this face was no longer his.Those lips. . . . He got up again, and drew intothe rays of the candle some of thecanvases that had submissively facedthe wall, like naughty children. Herewas Dolly Cameron, who had worna gypsy rig at the lawn party; whohad read his hand and declared thathe was going to live happily ever after.Clever girl, Dolly ; but not a goodprophetess certainly. That was avery bad guess of Dollys. Live hap-pily ever after ! Ah ! here was old Nottway, the model, who used to complain so much of his rheumatism and the stairs — not peevishly, nor indirectly, but as 114
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■,-i o ►ij; . .^ A, o S •>- ^. Q o THE GIRL 6r THE GUARDSMAN one man to another. Poor oldNott-way! with his white hair and austerecountenance, recalHng the days whenhe had been a delegate to the Con-stitutional Convention, when he occu-pied an honored seat on the bench,when they even wanted to force uponhim the nomination for lieutenantgovernor, — Nottway, with his courtlybow in the presence of a woman andhis magnificent appetite for cheeseand beer, Nottway was fit for anyimposing part. He had been a bishopfor Hilton, a monk for Snedeker, aLear for De Faronne, a ruined bankerfor Chavin, an alchemist for Malloy.Yea, one man in his time playsmany parts. This leonine face of a woman waspainted from Gribseys mother, atalkative dame with a convulsive 115 THE GIRL &- THE GUARDSMAN chuckle, who furnished to Bartonmuch real entertainment by her rem-iniscences of Joes erratic boyhood.When we had the farm/ said Mrs.Gribsey, before Samuel died, Joeused to deliver milk and vegetabl

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