The Heroine in Bronze Or a Portrait of a Girl a Pastoral of the City
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She linked her hands in her lap and bent slightly over toward me as though she were now impatiently coming back to something too long pushed aside. She spoke with a rush of eagerness : — " And now — the story ! What beautiful tidings to sail with and to keep by me all summer ! " I barely heard her, for my thoughts were on the picture she made. The old wall of the garden darkly shadowed with ivy rose behind her ; some of the topmost branches, falling outward and downward, almost overhung with le...aves of tender green her golden head. Near her stood the rose-bush thickly crowded with the brief procession of its buds. She sat there under the blue sky of the summer morning with the freshness of the blue and silver sea in the air about her ; an American 74 THE HEROINE IN BRONZE vestal of the college in her land and race and time. Yet like a Greek vestal on the Greek- like seat; Greek-like in the softness of snowy vestments which we in our day touch only as the hardness of marble ; Greek-like in symmetry, grace, health.
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