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into abstracted reverie She felt herself carried off her feet by the rush of incoherent impressions She flushed an agitated pink She forced a faint quivering smile She frowned incomprehension She had an air of restrained fury She had an undercurrent of acidity She hugged the thought of her own unknown and unapplauded integrity She lingered a few leisurely seconds She nodded mutely She nourished a dream of ambition She permitted herself a delicate little smile She poured out on him the full opulence of a proud recognition She questioned inimically [inimically = unfriendly; hostile] She recaptured herself with difficulty She regarded him stonily out of flint-blue eyes She sat eyeing him with frosty calm She seemed the embodiment of dauntless resolution She seemed wrapped in a veil of lassitude She shook hands grudgingly She softened her frown to a quivering smile She spoke with hurried eagerness She spoke with sweet severity She stilled and trampled on the inward protest She stood her ground with the most perfect dignity She strangled a fierce tide of feeling that welled up within her She swept away all opposing opinion with the swift rush of her enthusiasm She thrived on insincerity She twitted him merrily She was both weary and placated She was conscious of a tumultuous rush of sensations She was demure and dimly appealing She was exquisitely simple She was gripped with a sense of suffocation and panic She was in an anguish of sharp and penetrating remorse She was oppressed by a dead melancholy She was stricken to the soul She wore an air of wistful questioning Sheer superfluity of happiness Sickening contrasts and diabolic ironies of life Silence fell Singing lustily as if to exorcise the demon of gloom Skirmishes and retreats of conscience Slender experience of the facts of life Slope towards extinction Slow the movement was and tortuous Slowly disengaging its significance from the thicket of words So innocent in her exuberant happiness Soar into a rosy zone of contemplation Softened by the solicitude of untiring and anxious love Solitary and sorely smitten souls Some dim-remembered and dream-like images Some exquisite refinement in the architecture of the brain Some flash of witty irrelevance Something curiously suggestive and engaging Something eminently human beaconed from his
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