His Other Wife: A Novel — page 178: what you’re looking at

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{70 AN ECLAIRUISSEMENT. _ old power when she held this strong, earnest soul fast bound in the chains of passion, It happened in this wise; Warren and herself were examining together some flow- ers under a microscope, in pursuance of a curious theory upon which they had chanced while reading a magazine article on a botonical subject. Warren had adjusted the glass over the flower, and called Leda to observe the experiment. He sat at a table before the window, and she came and stood beside his chair, bending slightly over his shoulder, while she lis- tened to and watched his demonstrations with the instru- ment. : : Whether from the bending attitude of her head, or some other cause, cannot be ascertained, but the fact was that the comb fell from the heavy coil of her hair, and the whole bright mass of fragrant, rippling locks tumbled in a silken shower about the throat and shoulder of the busy scientist. | He stopped abruptly, and, as Leda gathered back the flowing lengths, she saw that Warren’s hueless cheek had caught the warm, ruddy tints from the serpentine curls that had swept it. He seemed to forget what he had been saying, and, hurriedly rising, returned to his former place across the room, where he began a conversation in a new vein, but not without betraying a nervous consciousness which Leda construed into a subtle homage to herself. She did not, for she could not, guess how much the man =| Eomicbooks.¢co