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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 22, 1912
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KITTYS RETURN She trailed slowiy uown the stairway in her velvet gown It was peachy hued with old lace at throat and wrists She moved with an indolent grace and held her head with its heavy masses ol dark hair a trifle haughtily The crim son lips were unsmiling and the eyes deeply blue under the long lashes looked distantly coid Sherrod watching her as she came slowly down to him felt a contraction of his throat and a sense of disappoint ment vaguely accusatory She re minded him in her new stateliness of an old painting he had seen in an art gallery in Florence The Marchioness the velvet gown with its clinging folds j accentuated her graceful slenderness and the long train lent dignity to her little figure Sherrod caught his breath 1 as he watched her hungrily He had 1 not remembered that she was so beauti ful She had always been to him the very essence of all that was lovely and gracious anil sweet and he had known her beautiful But he had never pic tured her with this regal air He felt i bewildered and somehow defrauded And then just as she reached the
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maine state library. 1912-02-22. Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), February 22, 1912. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn78000873/1912-02-22/ed-1/?sp=6
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