But she pulled off her glove and stretched out her bare white
hand to him as a queen to a subject; she raised the long curved
lashes, and the great amber eyes looked into the angry bloodshot
eyes.
The little yellow man began to breathe more and more rapidly;
soon he was panting like one in a fight to the death who is all
but conquered. At last he dropped on his knees amid the fur. . .
and the curling lashes were lowered again over the blazing amber
eyes that had conquered.
Madame de Medici lowered her beautiful white hand, and the little
yellow man seized it in both his own and showered rapturous
kisses upon it.
Madame smiled slightly.
"Poor little yellow man!" she murmured in sibilant Chinese, "you
shall never return to the Temple of Heaven!"
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