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Updated: May 16, 2025
I have kept you so long describing this Eastern Lady's Dress, that you must be growing impatient to know whether her Face matched in handsomeness with her Apparel; but there was the Deuce of it; for while I stood before her, staring and Wondering over her splendid Habiliments, I could catch ne'er a glimpse of her Countenance, which was entirely concealed from view by the Veil they call a Formah, which is made of a very fine gauzy stuff, but painted in body-colour in a pattern so as to make it Opaque, and so artfully disposed as to hide the Face without shading any of the splendour of the Dress.
"I am ready to die," writes Erasmus of him, "when I shall have seen any young man purer or kinder or more sincere than this one." It is a worthy mate, at all events. The vigour and finish of this portrait on vellum, done in crayons or body-colour, make it a gem of the first water.
He had been so much absorbed in his work that he had scarcely noticed that she had been rather unusually silent. "I've got a piece of news for you," she said at length. Georgie held his breath, as he drew a very thin line of body-colour along the edge of Ab. "No! What is it?" he said. "Is it about the Princess?" Olga seemed to hail this as a diversion.
"I haven't found it yet, but I should fancy it would be rather highly coloured." "Iridescent, perhaps. Did you ever speculate as to the colour of people's souls? I'm quite sure every soul has a colour." "What is yours?" asked Vernon of course. "I'm too humble to tell you. But some souls are thick body-colour, don't you know and some are clear like jewels." "And mine's an opal, is it?"
Why there should be foam-bubbles there then, and not always, I do not know. But there they were and such colours! deep rose and grassy green and ultramarine blue; and, above all, one dark, yet brilliant and intensely-burnished, metallic gold. All of them were of a solid-looking burnished colour, like opaque body-colour laid on behind translucent crystal.
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