[Gutenberg 40408] • A Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly
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- Authors
- Cholmondeley, Mary
- Tags
- england -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction , triangles (interpersonal relations) -- fiction , marriage -- fiction , older men -- fiction , young women -- fiction , man-woman relationships -- fiction
- Date
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.14 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt:
Her delicate features were too irregular, in spite of their obvious high breeding; her figure was too slight; her complexion was too faintly tinted for regular beauty. But she had something of the evanescent charm of a four-petalled dog-rose newly blown—exquisite, ethereal, but as if it might fall in a moment. This aspect of fragility was heightened by what women noticed about her first, namely, her gossamer gown with its silver gleam, and by what men noticed about her first—her gray eyes, pathetic, eager, shy by turns, always lovely, but hinting of a sword too sharp for its slender sheath, of an ardent spirit whose grasp on this world was too slight.