Argosy (UK), January 1955 — page 100: what you’re looking at

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+a fa . WHITE LADY An age in her embraces pass’d Would seem a winter’s day JoHN WILMmMoT, EARL OF ROCHESTER I saw fair Chloris walk alone, Whilst feathered rain came softly down, : =: And fove descended from his tower “I To court her in a silver shower. The wanton snow flew on her breast Like little birds unto their nest; But overcome with whiteness there, For grief it thawed into a tear; Thence falling on her garment’s hem, To deck her, froze into a gem. WILLIAM STRODE, On Chloris Walking in the Snow, 1632 Figure Skating The person, whatever the name or sex, was about middle _ height, very slenderly fashioned, and dressed entirely in oyster a coloured velvet, trimmed with some unfamiliar greenish-coloured _ Vy, ‘ \ FU ey ‘ | OA i ek ae Se AL . Gr AS reas ry ae, AY Ghee fur. But these details were obscured by the extraordinary seduc- tiveness which issued from the whole person. Images, metaphors % of the most extreme and extravagant twined and twisted in his mind. He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or g all three together. (For though we must pause notamomentinthe — narrative we may here hastily note that all his images at this time _ were simple in the extreme to match his senses and were mostly taken from things he had liked the taste of as a boy. But if his senses were simple they were at the same time extremely strong) . A melon, an emerald, a fox in the snow—-so he raved, so he stared. When the boy, for alas, a boy it must be—no woman could skate with such speed and vigour—swept almost on tiptoe past him, Orlando was ready to tear his hair with vexation that the person was of his own sex, and thus all embraces were out of” the question. But the skater came closer. Legs, hands, carriage, were a boy’s, but no boy ever had a mouth like that; no boy had | comicloolks, com