[The Titan by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookThe Titan CHAPTER XXV 2/14
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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