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The Titan

CHAPTER XXV
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Those dark-greens, and that pale, fatty white! I can see how beautiful they would be in a Chinese setting.

I have always wished we could find a Chinese or Japanese play to produce sometime." "Yes, with your black hair those ear-rings would look well," said Cowperwood.
He had never deigned to comment on a feature of hers before.

She turned her dark, brown-black eyes on him--velvety eyes with a kind of black glow in them--and now he noticed how truly fine they were, and how nice were her hands--brown almost as a Malay's.
He said nothing more; but the next day an unlabeled box was delivered to Stephanie at her home containing a pair of jade ear-rings, a bracelet, and a brooch with Chinese characters intagliated.

Stephanie was beside herself with delight.

She gathered them up in her hands and kissed them, fastening the ear-rings in her ears and adjusting the bracelet and ring.


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