The book of love Author:Jessie Reid Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: parting to the right of his forehead, in what his admiring Lady Blandish called his plume, fell away slanting silkily to the temples across the nearly impercepti... more »ble upward curve of his brows there — felt more than seen, so slight it was — and gave to his profile a bold beauty, to which his bashful, breathless air was a flattering charm. An arrow drawn to the head, capable of flying fast and far with her! He leaned a little forward to her, drinking her in with all his eyes, and young Love has a thousand. Then truly the System triumphed, just ere it was to fall; and could Sir Austin have been content to draw the arrow to the head, and let it fly, when it would fly, he might have pointed to his son again, and said to the world, " Match him !" Such keen bliss as the youth had in the sight of her, an innocent youth alone has powers of soul in him to experience. George Meredith Nichola's Hour of Arcady -o cy o o T TE was a fine, handsome fellow, — Eric Chartres, this young lover of Lisa's, and their sweetest confusions and dignities were enchanting. Pelleas and I sat on the red sofa and beamed at them, and the little fire tossed and leaped on the hearth, and the shadows gathered in the corners and fell upon us; and on Lisa and her lover the firelight rested. What a wonderful hour it was for our plain drawing- room, for so many years doomed to be merely the home of talk about war and rumors of war and relatives and their colorless doings and even about matches made for shadowy lovers whom it never might see. And now the room was called on to harbor Young Love itself. No wonder that the sober bindings on the shelves tried in the yellow firelight to give news from their own storied hearts that beat with the hearts of other lovers. No wonder that the flowers on the mantel look...« less