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Illustrator: Alfred J. Dewey

Am?lie Rives, Alfred James Dewey, Frederick A. Stokes Company

SHADOWS OF FLAMES

SHADOWS OF FLAMES

A Novel

BY AM?LIE RIVES

NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS

TO MY FRIEND VIOLA ROSEBORO WITH MUCH LOVE

Sophy smiled at her image in the mirror, and her grey eyes smiled back at her. The shadows under them--warm, golden stains like those on a bruised magnolia leaf--gave them a mysterious, impassioned look. She felt that she was going to have a happy evening.

In those days, in the early '90s, electric light was not much used in the houses in Regent's Park. Candles in brass sconces lighted her dressing-table. They brought out flickering shimmers from her gown of white brocade. Sleeves were full that year. The transparent masses of azalea pink, drooping on either side of her slender body, made it look slenderer. These sleeves were like huge orchids, and from them her arms drooped stamenlike in the soft, gold wash from the candles.

Matilda, her little Kentish maid, could not keep her eyes away from her. As she hooked the long, tightly wound sash of azalea pink she kept peering at her lady's image in the glass. There, Sophy's eyes met hers. She smiled again--at Tilda this time.

"Will you wear anything on your hair, m'm?" asked the girl, smiling shyly in return.

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