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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V STOOPING AND CONQUERING It is a pity that the great and terrible sage of Weiss- nichtwo never, in his Clothes-Philosophy, treated of the influence of raiment as an element in subjugation, and thereunder, especially, Of Dress as Affecting the Relations of Women. Now, Olive Dearwester was well enough dressed; but after Amy Bloodgood came, she felt a sense of cheapness and shabbiness in her apparel; and that its stitches were her own and her mother's, degraded them in the foolish girl's?I was about to say mind, but that would be wrong?I think it must have been in the medulla oblongata whence the blind impulses come. Amy's clothes gave forth that costly rustle telling of inward richness, were built on the simple lines that show the handiwork of a man, and displayed an unassuming excellence of fabric and finish which it requires a woman's eye to distinguish from the plainness of economy. Therefore, when Olive sat down to sing again she felt like Blowsalinda singing to the queen: all uncomforted of the fact that in any such competitive examination as that once conducted by Paris of Troy, she would have been first and Amy nowhere. And yet, not by extrinsic things only was Amy Bloodgood something of a personage. She lacked, it is true, the wealth of personal charms which in due time made Olive Dearwester the delight of photographers, painters and sculptors; but she was a pretty woman with an aristocratic face, a figure of fine symmetry and poise, and expressive gray eyes. A disdainful little nose she had, and a mouth with a playfully forlorn droop at the corners, and a changeful expression to those who enjoyed intimacy with her. Olive sang badly?for her; but Miss Bloodgood was pleased to think that she would do, perhaps. In the midst of the song Mr. John Bloodgood...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217068505 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217068502 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $22.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 306 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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