Under a canopied platform stood a young girl, modeling in clay. The glare of the Californiasunshine, filtering through the canvas, became mellowed, warm and golden. Above the girl'shead-yellow like the stalk of wheat-there hovered a kind of aureola, as if there had risenabove it a haze of impalpable gold dust.A poet I know might have cried out that here ended his quest of the Golden Girl. Straight shestood at this moment, lovely of face, rounded of form, with an indescribable suggestion of latentphysical power or magnetism. On her temples there were little daubs of clay, caused doubtlessby impatient fingers sweeping back occasional wind blown locks of hair. There was even a daubon the side of her handsome sensitive nose.Her hand, still filled with clay, dropped to her side, and a tableau endured for a minute ortwo, suggesting a remote period, a Persian idyl, mayhap. With a smile on her lips she stared atthe living model. The chatoyant eyes of the leopard stared back, a flicker of restlessness in theirbrilliant yellow deeps. The tip of the tail twitched."You beautiful thing " she said.
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