[Solar-coop] T the girl's neck and kissed the flushed cheeks. Caresses from Mr

Dom Mar 21 17:36:46 CET 2010

Een able to be quite nonchalant about refusing the services of the maid who offered to help her dress. It was true that from time to time she suddenly flushed or paled; it was true that her mind seemed incapable of the slightest consecutive
thought; it was true that she seemed to be in a dream,
peopled by crazily inconsequent images--she had again and again a vision, startlingly vivid, of the red-twigged osier beside which she had stood; it was true that she had a slight feeling of vertigo when she tried
to think ahead of the next moment--but still she was going ahead with her unpacking and dressing so steadily that she
marveled. She decided again from the depth of her experience that getting engaged was nothing like so upsetting

an event as people made out. She thrust the last pin into her hair and tipped her head preeningly before the big
triplicate mirror--the first time she had ever encountered this luxury outside of a ready-made clothes shop. The yellow chiffon came out from the
trunk in perfect condition, looking like a big, silk-petaled flower as she slipped it on over her bare shoulders, and emerged above, triumphant and yet half afraid to look at herself
in the mirror lest she should see that her home-made toilet had not "the right look." One glance satisfied even her jealous eagerness. It had exactly the right look--that is, it looked precisely like the picture

from which she had copied it. She gazed with naive satisfaction at the faithfulness with which her reflected appearance resembled that of the Parisian

demi-mondaine whose photograph she had seen, and settled on her slim, delicately modeled shoulders the straps of shirred and beaded chiffon which apparently performed the office
of keeping her dress from sliding to the floor. In reality,
under its fluid, gauzy draperies, it was constructed on a firm,
well-fitting, well-fastened foundation of opaque cloth which quite adequately clothed the young body, but its appearance was of a transparent cloud, only kept from floating entirely

away by those gleaming straps on the
shoulders, an

effect carefully calculated in the original mode
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