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She pushed the portiere aside with a curved hand and gracefully
separated fingers; it was a staccato movement and her body followed
it after an instant's poise of hesitation, head thrust a little
forward, eyes inquiring and a tentative smile, although she knew
precisely who was there. You would have been aware at once that she
was an actress. She entered the room with a little stride and then
crossed it quickly, the train of her morning gown - it cried out of
luxury with the cheapest voice - taking folds of great audacity as
she bent her face in its loose mass of hair over Laura Filbert,
sitting on the edge of a bamboo sofa, and said - "You poor thing!
Oh, you POOR thing!" She took Laura's hand as she spoke, and tried
to keep it; but the hand was neutral, and she let it go. "It is a
hand," she said to herself, in one of those quick reflections that
so often visited her ready-made, "that turns the merely inquiring
mind away. Nothing but feeling could hold it."
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A marigold lay in the path, an orange-coloured scrap with a broken
stem, dropped from some coolie's necklace. Hilda picked it up, and
drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. She closed her eyes
and drifted on the odour, forgetting her speculations, losing her
feet. All India and all her passion was in that violent,
penetrating fragrance; it brought her, as she gave her senses up to
it, a kind of dual perception of being near the core, the throbbing
centre of the world's meaning.
Next morning the Maharajah was very much annoyed by the
intelligence that all the little red-spotted fishes were floating
flabby and flat and dead among the lily pads of the fountain--there
were few things except Moti that the Maharajah loved better than
his little red-spotted fishes. He wanted very particularly to know
why they should have died in this unanimous and apparently
preconcerted way. The gods had probably killed them by lightning,
but the Maharajah wanted to know. So he sent for the Englishman,
who did not mind touching a dead thing, and the Englishman told him
that the little red-spotted fishes had undoubtedly been poisoned.
Moti was listening when the doctor said this.
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at www 1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - She pushed the portiere aside with a
curved hand and gracefully separated fingers; it was a staccato
movement and her body followed it after an instant's poise of
hesitation, head thrust a little forward, eyes inquiring and a
tentative smile, although she knew precisely who was there. You
would have been aware at once that she was an actress. She entered
the room with a little stride and then crossed it quickly, the
train of her morning gown - it cried out of luxury with the
cheapest voice - taking folds of great audacity as she bent her
face in its loose mass of hair over Laura Filbert, sitting on the
edge of a bamboo sofa, and said - You poor thing Oh, you POOR thing
She took Laura's hand as she spoke, and tried to keep it; but the
hand was neutral, and she let it go. It is a hand, she said to
herself, in one of those quick reflections that so often visited
her ready-made, that turns the merely inquiring mind away. Nothing
but feeling could hold it.
A marigold lay in the path, an orange-coloured scrap with a broken
stem, dropped from some coolie's necklace. Hilda picked it up, and
drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. She closed her eyes
and drifted on the odour, forgetting her speculations, losing her
feet. All India and all her passion was in that violent,
penetrating fragrance; it brought her, as she gave her senses up to
it, a kind of dual perception of being near the core, the throbbing
centre of the world's meaning.
Next morning the Maharajah was very much annoyed by the
intelligence that all the little red-spotted fishes were floating
flabby and flat and dead among the lily pads of the fountain--there
were few things except Moti that the Maharajah loved better than
his little red-spotted fishes. He wanted very particularly to know
why they should have died in this unanimous and apparently
preconcerted way. The gods had probably killed them by lightning,
but the Maharajah wanted to know. So he sent for the Englishman,
who did not mind touching a dead thing, and the Englishman told him
that the little red-spotted fishes had undoubtedly been poisoned.
Moti was listening when the doctor said this.
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