Eyelids for a second and then raising them gazed at him for a little with that
Soft expression that people described as her velvet look. She had no object in
Doing this. 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;
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, with her help, as to show her at her best.
Her nose was slightly thick, but he had managed by his lighting to make it
Look very delicate, not a wrinkle marred the smoothness of her skin, and there
Was a melting look in her fine eyes.
"All right (). You shall have this one ( ). You know I'm
not a beautiful woman ( , ), I'm not even a
very pretty one ( ); Coquelin always used to say (
) I had the beaut du diable (. = devilish beauty;
). You understand French, don't you ( -
, )."
"Enough for that (, )."
"I'll sign it for you ( )."
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She sat at the desk ( ) and with her bold, flowing hand wrote (
, ): Yours sincerely, Julia Lambert (
, ).
beautiful ['bju:tIf(q)l] pretty ['prItI] sincerely [sIn'sIqlI]
"All right. You shall have this one. You know I'm not a beautiful woman, I'm
Not even a very pretty one; Coquelin always used to say I had the beaut du
diable. You understand French, don't you?"
"Enough for that."
"I'll sign it for you."
She sat at the desk and with her bold, flowing hand wrote: Yours sincerely,
Julia Lambert.
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WHEN the two men had gone ( : ) she
looked through the photographs again ( ; to
look smth. through - ) before putting them
back ( , ).
"Not bad for a woman of forty-six ( //),"
she smiled ( ). "They are like me (//
; like , ), there's no denying that (
; to deny , , )." She
looked round the room ( ) for a mirror (/ / ),
but there wasn't one ( / / //). "These
damned decorators ( ). Poor Michael ( ),
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|
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no wonder ( ) he never uses this room (//
). Of course () I never have photographed well
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( ; to photograph well
)."
She had an impulse ( ; impulse ,
, ) to look at some of her old photographs (
). Michael was a tidy (
), business-like man ( //; business-like
, , ), and her photographs were kept (
: ) in large cardboard cases (
), dated and chronologically arranged (//
; to date ,
, to arrange , ).
His were in other cardboard cases ( //
) in the same cupboard ( ).
deny [dI'naI] mirror ['mIrq] chronologically ["krOnq'lOdZIkqlI]
