LINDA CONDON BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER NEW YORK ALFREDAKNOPF 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. FEINTED IN THE TTNITED STATES OF AMBBICA. To CARL VAN FECHTEN This, Linda Condons Gravest Bow. 6610053 LINDA CONDON A BLACK bang was, but not ultimately, the most notable feature of her uncom mon personality straight and severe and dense across her clear pale brow and eyes. Her eyes were the last thing to remember and wonder about in shade blue, they had a velvet richness, a poignant intensity of lovely color, that ...
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LINDA CONDON BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER NEW YORK ALFREDAKNOPF 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. FEINTED IN THE TTNITED STATES OF AMBBICA. To CARL VAN FECHTEN This, Linda Condons Gravest Bow. 6610053 LINDA CONDON A BLACK bang was, but not ultimately, the most notable feature of her uncom mon personality straight and severe and dense across her clear pale brow and eyes. Her eyes were the last thing to remember and wonder about in shade blue, they had a velvet richness, a poignant intensity of lovely color, that surprised the heart. Aside from that she was slim, perhaps ten years old, and graver than gay. Her mother was gay for them both, and, there fore, for the entire family. No father was in evi dence he was dead and never spoken of, and Linda was the only child. Lindas dresses, those significant trivialities, plainly showed two tend encies the gaiety of her mother and her own al ways formal gravity. If Linda appeared at din ner, in the massive Renaissance materialism of the hotel dining-room, with a preposterous magenta hair-ribbon on her shapely head, her mother had succeeded in expressing her sense of the appro priately decorative while if Linda wore an unor- 9 LINDA CONDON namented but equally unsuitable frock of dark velvet, she, in her turn, had been vindicated. Again, but far more rarely, the childs selec tion was evident on the woman As a rule Mrs. Condon garbed her flamboyant body in large and expensive patterns or extremely tailored suits and of the two, the evening satins and powdered arms barely retaining an admissible line, and the suits, the latter were the most, well spectacular. She was not dark in color but brightly golden a gold, it must be said in allhonesty, her own, a metallic gold crisply and solidly marcelled with hazel-brown eyes, and a mouth which, set against her daughters deep-blue gaze, was her particular attraction. It was rouged to a nicety, the under lip a little full and never quite against the upper. If Lindas effect was cool and remote, Mrs. Con don, thanks to her mouth, was reassuringly im minent. She was, too, friendly she talked to women in her not overfrequent opportunities in a rapid warm inaccurate confession of almost everything they desired to hear. The women, of course, were continually hampered by the unfor tunate fact that the questions nearest their hearts, or curiosity, were entirely inadmissible. . Viewed objectively, they all, with the exception 10 LINDA CONDON of Linda, seemed alike but that might have been due to their common impressive setting. The Boscombe, in its way, was as lavish as Mrs. Con dons dresses. The main place of congregation, for instance, was a great space of white marble columns, Turkey-red carpet and growing palms. It was lighted at night indirectly by alabaster bowls hanging on gilded chains a soft bright flood of radiance falling on the seated or slowly promenading women with bare shoulders. Usually they were going with a restrained sharp eagerness toward the dining-room or leav ing it in a more languid flushed repletion. There were, among them, men but somehow the men never seemed to be of the least account It was a womens paradise. The glow from aboye al ways emphasized the gowns, the gowns like or chids and tea-roses and the leaves of magnolias It sparkled in the red and green and crystal jewels like exotic dew scattered over the exotic human flowers. Very occasionally therewas a compla cent or irritable masculine utterance, and then it was immediately lost in the dominant feminine sibilance. Other children than Linda sped in the manner of brilliant fretful tops literally on the elaborate EH LINDA CONDON outskirts of the throng but they were as different from her as she was from the elders. Indeed Linda resembled the latter, rather than her proper age, remarkably...
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