Lady Evelyn — page 159: what you’re looking at

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ee Fpl yah BURG DSS as OD SS eB eer teem ree CHAP LHR: “nit RED QUEEN.” “Good-night, Migonnette!”’ “Good-night, little queen!’ “Good-night, and pleasant dreams, Red Queen!” It was the ward of a public hospital, the hour close upon twilight, the time early spring, the scene St. Louis. The lengthy hospital wards were filled with sufferers, and for each of them she had a kind word, who tripped . so lightly down the long aisle. Dull eyes brightened, weary, throbbing heads lifted, hands stretched forth, parched lips opened to bid her good-night. They all knew her; they all loved her—the tenderest of nurses, the most patient of scribes. Every one of these hospital pa- “tients knew ‘The Red Queen.” . See her as she trips so fleetly and so jauntily down the long ward, with the last golden gleam of the April sun- set bright on her darkling, sparkling face, and great, shining .black eyes. She is as darkly handsome as some old Salvator or Murillo painting—the oval face, duskily olive; the long, lazy Andalusian eyes, black, liquid, fiery, or melting, as you like; the thick, silky, curly crop of jetty hair, growing in little kinky rings over the low brow, all cut short like a boy’s; the lips and chin simply perfect, dimpled, rosy, sweet; and her cheek— “Her cheek is like a Catherine pear, The side that’s next the sun.” A little, lithe, supple figure, an airy dress,-all crimson and black, a black velvet cap, with a scarlet feather set -jauntily like a boy’s on the crisp black rings of hair at the right side. That is Red Queen, otherwise Migon- - nette, otherwise Minnette, the actress. ~-comicbooks.co