Eino was a darkly serious young Finn; he looked at Jinny with what
Cass nervously saw to be the greatest fondness and at Cass with the
greatest dislike, so that Cass felt like an old windbag, though he
had as yet said nothing more than, "Well! Good evening."
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Eino was a darkly serious young Finn
Jinny introduced her four companions of the arts as they sulkily
rose and dusted their knees. They were not too young--twenty-four
to thirty--but the placid disregard of them by Grand Republic still
kept them youthful and belligerent. They were Lyra Coggs,
assistant city librarian, Wilma Gunton, head of the cosmetics
department at Tarr's Emporium, Tracy Oleson, secretary to powerful
Webb Wargate and a young man who seemed to Cass interesting enough
to be looked at with suspicion, Eino Roskinen, aged twenty-four,
butter-maker at the Northward Co-operative Dairy but, as Jinny
explained, a born theater director.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Meeting that took place between them in Finland
I had begun to speculate as to whether this might not have influenced the design of the vases just described, when my notice was drawn to a huge gold lock, bearing the cipher of a certain Grand Duke of Holstein. This Grand Duke owed his throne to the Empress Elizabeth; and it is supposed that at a meeting that took place between them in Finland he presented it to her, and that she left it at Novgorod on her way back to the capital. Thus it did not find its place among the other Byzantine treasures of the cathedral till the middle of the eighteenth century.
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