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as though tendering
the spectacle of
aesthetic co-ordinates
a shell-splinter
pearl-grey gloves
his crush hat
a specimen
girdled
in the polished disk
of sensual bliss
moved
an accidental
fragment
evokes
his horizon
bounded by two
fans or
two adjacent chairs
glad of a companion
she preferred
an obscure
melancholy
a series of trapezes
the pendulum of
her constantly accelerated
reason
murmuring
almost horizontally
a hollow sound
limiting her field of vision
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claiming
her due
a pattern in the carpet
dumb-show
expressing
the act of politeness
she moved
in order to
straighten
her fan
a tender smile
taught in her girlhood
sinuous creatures
somewhere beyond
a more premeditated reaction
she had
solitude
a sudden
slender young
beauty
free from the scrutiny of
memories and sensations
a woman
reduced to
an echo
a token
romantically compressed
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to modify this
overture
she seemed
to appear
by an invitation
a moment dreamed
in the plays of
social engagements
the expression of her anxiety
a pretence
in which she might find herself
a lump of sugar
a thousand signs
underlying
her
might one day emerge
into a laugh
such lovely things
it was only
the emotion of
her gratitude
so delightful
an uneasiness
running
within reach of
the moment
an impression
isolating the word
a regular little peach
half wishing to oblige