chimney-piece was an old copy of Lawrence's portrait of Kemble as Hamlet.
On a small table was a pile of typescript plays.
The room was surrounded by bookshelves under which were cupboards, and
From one of these Julia took a bundle of her latest photographs. She handed
One to the young man.
"This one is not so bad."
"It's lovely."
"Then it can't be as like me as I thought."
"But it is. It's exactly like you."
She gave him another sort of smile, just a trifle roguish ( -
, ; trifle , , -, a trifle
, , ) she lowered her eyelids for a second (
: ) and then raising them (
: ) gazed at him for a little (
; to gaze , , ) with that soft
expression ( ) that people described as her velvet look
( // ). She had no object in
doing this ( , : ; object
, , , ). She did it, if not mechanically
( , ), from an instinctive desire to please
(// ). The boy was so young, so shy
( , ), he looked as if he had such a nice nature
(, , : ,
), and she would never see him again (
), she wanted him to have his money's worth (
, - :
; money's-worth - ); she wanted
him to look back on this ( , : )
as one of the great moments of his life (
). She glanced at the photograph again (
). She liked to think she looked like that ( ,
// ). The photographer had so posed her
( ; to pose
; , ), with her help ( ), as to show her at
her best ( :
). Her nose was slightly thick ( ; slightly
, , -), but he had managed ( ) by his lighting (
// ) to make it look very delicate (
: ), not a wrinkle ( ) marred the
smoothness of her skin ( ; to mar ,
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), and there was a melting look in her fine eyes ( //
/ ; to melt ; ).
trifle ['traIf(q)l] roguish ['rqVgIS] object ['ObdZ ekt, -Ikt| ]
mechanically [mI'kxnIk(q)lI] desire [dI'zaIq] lighting ['laItIN]
