1 "The glass is falling," said a voice.
2 It was the cheval glass that proved too heavy.
3 Standing by the cupboard in the corner he saw her reflected in the glass.
4 That's a cit; that's a fop; raising his glass, prithee, to have his fill of me.
5 Out of the corner of his eye, as he raised his glass, he saw a flash of white in the garden.
6 Cut off from their bodies, their eyes smiled, their bodiless eyes, at their eyes in the glass.
7 He saw her standing against the green glass, the fig tree, and the blue hydrangea, knife in hand.
8 "A beaker of cold water, a beaker of cold water," she repeated, and saw water surrounded by walls of shining glass.
9 And I promised him you'd show him the--the-- here the champagne fizzed up and she insisted upon filling Bart's glass first.
10 Inside the glass, in her eyes, she saw what she had felt overnight for the ravaged, the silent, the romantic gentleman farmer.
11 So did they all--hand glasses, tin cans, scraps of scullery glass, harness room glass, and heavily embossed silver mirrors--all stopped.
12 But the master was not dead; only dreaming; drowsily, seeing as in a glass, its lustre spotted, himself, a young man helmeted; and a cascade falling.
13 The butler had been a soldier; had married a lady's maid; and, under a glass case there was a watch that had stopped a bullet on the field of Waterloo.
14 He wanted to see her, not against the tea urn, but with her glass green eyes and thick body, the neck was broad as a pillar, against an arum lily or a vine.
15 She lifted it and stood in front of the three-folded mirror, so that she could see three separate versions of her rather heavy, yet handsome, face; and also, outside the glass, a slip of terrace, lawn and tree tops.
16 It was a shock to find, after the morning's look in the glass, and the arrow of desire shot through her last night by the gentleman farmer, how much she felt when he came in, not a dapper city gent, but a cricketer, of love; and of hate.
17 Out they came from the bushes--men in flowered waistcoats, white waistcoats and buckled shoes; women wearing brocades tucked up, hooped and draped; glass stars, blue ribands and imitation pearls made them look the very image of Lords and Ladies.
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