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Hyde watched her flitting about the strange roo the poisonous, vivid splendours of tropical swairl looked a the spoils of far India, and Central America, and of Arabian and African worship and workmanship But when the door opened, and Mada footsteps entered, Hyde understood how truly the soul, if given the ithal, builds the habitation it likes best Once possessed of , she seeestive belongings She was unusually tall, and her figure had kept its undulating, stately grace Her hair, dazzlingly white, was piled high above her a pins Her face had lost its fine oval and youthful freshness, but who of any feeling or intelligence would not have far preferred the worn countenance, expressing in a thousand sensitive shades and emotions the story of her life and love? And if every other beauty had failed, Angelica's eyes would have atoned for the loss They were large, softly- black, slow- with the fire that lay hidden in the dark pit of the iris
It was said that her slaves adored her, and that no man who came within her influence had been able to resist her power--no man, perhaps, but Captain Jacobus; and he had not resisted, he had been content to exercise over her a power greater than her own He had made her his wife; he had lavished on her for ten years the spoils of the four quarters of the world; and his worship of her had only been equalled by her passionate attach and silence--unbroken silence Yet she still insisted that he was alive, and would certainly come back to her With this faith in her heart, she had refused to put on any sy She kept his fine house open, his roo Society, which insists on uniformity, did not approve of this unreasonable hope It expected her to adopt the garments of hood for a tireat fortune Captain Jacobus had left her But Angelica Jacobus was a law unto herself; and society was coives to whatever is original and individual
She came in with a smile of welcome She was always pleased that her fine hoe to it; and perhaps was particularly pleased that General Hyde's son should be her visitor And as Joris was determined to win her favour, there was an alood-will