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Sketching
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Save for the accident of her low birth, Peg might have been a person of fashion; a vibrant beauty, painted by an academician in oils.
Intending to make a quick end to it, I started mixing the lily green I had made especially from crushed flowers, hoping exactly to tint her eyes, rattling my tiny brush in the jar. Then I subjected her to my closest gaze.
"Your eyes," I said, musingly. "They are a very unusual green; in different lights they reflect brown and blue. Do they perhaps reflect whatever
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― A Taste for Nightshade
― A Taste for Nightshade
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Her collarbones glowed in the candlelight, like polished ivory under liquid gold. I sketched their curves and shadows, capturing how the water lapped softly at her skin.
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― Where the Dark Knelt
― Where the Dark Knelt
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