Excerpt: ...her ear. It was a ballad air, and new to her. Shifting her chair, she looked up at La Mothe as he bent over his instrument. Streaming through the windows behind him the cunning sunshine lit the brown of his hair to a red-gold. She had never seen just such a colour in a man, and the Apollo simile was not so unapt. "Sing," she said suddenly, and again La Mothe obeyed, catching up the air almost unconsciously. "Lilies White and Roses Red, Gracious sweetness past compare, Beauty's self to thee hath fled, Lilies ...
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Excerpt: ...her ear. It was a ballad air, and new to her. Shifting her chair, she looked up at La Mothe as he bent over his instrument. Streaming through the windows behind him the cunning sunshine lit the brown of his hair to a red-gold. She had never seen just such a colour in a man, and the Apollo simile was not so unapt. "Sing," she said suddenly, and again La Mothe obeyed, catching up the air almost unconsciously. "Lilies White and Roses Red, Gracious sweetness past compare, Beauty's self to thee hath fled, Lilies White and Roses Red: Lover's service bows its head, Awed by witchery so fair, Lilies White and Roses Red, Gracious sweetness past compare." "Are they your own verses?" "No, I wish they were. I only think them." Their eyes met for a moment, then she looked aside and there was silence. Her thoughts, or that brief glance-Apollo was a god, good to look upon-had so warmed her cheeks that the refrain of the Triolet was almost justified. The lines of anxious care were smoothed from the forehead, and the half-smile of the new-drawn Cupid's bow was a little tremulous. A sudden determination moved La Mothe. Never had he seen her so gracious, so womanly, so completely the one sweet woman in all the world. Pushing the lute aside, he leaned forward. "Mademoiselle," he began earnestly, "do you remember ten days ago I said there was a question I would dare to ask you when you knew me better?" "I remember," she said, turning a little from him that the light might not fall upon her face to betray her. She said she remembered, but the truth was that in the tumult of her thoughts the recollection was vague. "Yes, I think I know you better." "It is a very bold question, and one which might well offend. And yet you know I would not willingly offend you?" "Yes, I am sure of that." The rustling of the lawn and laces on her breast was a little more tempestuous, but the voice was very level, very quiet. As to Stephen La Mothe, ...
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