Dr North and His Friends Author:Silas Weir Mitchell 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: INNE VINCENT was sure to consider what Vincent said to her, and probably he put his case later with his usual vigor of statement, for that lady was more tha... more »n commonly thoughtful as to where she took the new favorite, and to whom she presented her. My wife may also have contributed prudent counsels, for although she too was attracted, and inclined to add Sibyl to her collection of what we called her lame ducks, she was less apt than Anne Vincent to insist on their acceptance by those who were less kind and more critical. Mrs. Vincent took Miss Maywood to concerts, now and then to the theater, and saw, personally, a good deal of the girl. I was sure that the striking face of Sibyl Maywood would at once attract the too attentive eyes of St. Clair. Perfect physical beauty of body or of face excited him strangely. He held himself free to study the new face or form, and to make comments which at times seemed to us outrageous. Then he was given to poetically idealizing the art idol, and imagining for it moral and mental gifts which it might or might not possess. My wife said that St. Clair was never a bore, even when he talked his wildest nonsense, but that sometimes, when he imagined some dull girl to be Minerva because she had the hand of Venus, thefaint shadow of the adjective " tin.some " did hover over that sensitive noun " talk." I said that wa true, but elaborate. " You are ungrateful . Be So good as to say it better." I admitted my incapacity, and ventured upon a prophetic statement. I said: " If ever St. CUir feel the charm of some unusual temperament, and see later the beauty of its owner, he will be hopeleaaly Ungled in the net of love. He will never be hard hit in the ordinary way by Iieing caught first by fn,-. or form. He is too accustomed, as an artist, to b. ov...« less