DARLING!
Rosemary ” writes: She was beautiful, tall and stately, her aristocratic palor tinged with just the faintest touch of red. Sweetly-parted lips displayed pearly teeth, the violet eyes were partly concealed hv curling lashes. One was inclined to wonder what expression they held, what depths of womanly tenderness lay there. Hauteur was apparent in the rounded, disdainful curve of her chin; that halfveiled gaze held pride. She was accustomed, 1 imagined, to the adoration of the herd, to envious glances and whispered comment. Admiration she accepted as her due. Yet she was wax in the hands of one man—an insignificant creature this, with pale face and puny body. Even as I watched lie touched one of the glossy waves of her hair and clasped one slender hand in his. Did she offer rebuke? No, she smiled on, with drooping, downcast gaze, looking with ineffable tenderness at the bald spot on his head. Halfsupporting her against his shoulder, he rolled up the richly embroidered sleeve, took the softly curving arm, and screwed it into position. She was indeed wax—a shop window model. —“ Auckland Star.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1927, Page 4
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183DARLING! Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1927, Page 4
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