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The crystal drops sparkled like pearls upon her naked feet. Some of them, dashed higher by the hoofs of the horse, were sprinkled upon her cheek, and clung to the carmined skin as if kissing it! I envied those diamond drops!
For six midnights of the week, on the roof of the Moncrieff Frolic, grape-wreathed and with the ecstatic quivering of the flesh that is Asia's, Folly, robed in veils, lifts her carmined lips to be kissed, and Bacchus, whose pot-belly has made him unloved of fair women, raises his perpetual goblet and drinks that he may not weep.
But now, as she studied the woman huddled there in the corner, she was conscious of a shuddering disgust of her of the soiled blouse, of the cheap finery, of the sunken places around the jaw-bone, of the swollen places beneath the eyes, of the thin, carmined lips, of the Blanche LeHaye opened her eyes suddenly and caught the look on Emma McChesney's face. Caught it, and comprehended it.
Fanny French, who said she had lately recovered from a serious illness in Paris; the nature of her malady she did not specify; it had left her haggard and thin, but by no means deficient in vivacity. She was dressed with tawdry extravagance, wore a mass of false yellow hair, had her eyebrows dyed black, piquant contrast, and her cheeks and lips richly carmined.
"Good what a lover! You are not afraid?" Mendaciously he assured her that he was not. "Good!" she said again, with a showing of white teeth between her carmined lips. "You take her you take her away from him. That is what I want. You understand?" Very suddenly he understood. This was no emissary from Aimée. This was no philanthropic bystander.
By every line of its slim young body, by every curve of its cheek and throat you know it is adorably, pitifully young. By its carmined lip, its near-smart hat, its babbling of "him," and by the knowledge which looks boldly out of its eyes you know it is tragically old.
The carmined lips curled in a smile a smile, impossible to believe, of youth and sweetness, that disclosed a dimple in her cheek. She was pretty. She was holding him, pulling him a little toward her. "I like you!" she exclaimed. The suddenness of the incident, the impossibility of what was happening, made Neale dumb. He felt her, saw her as he were in a dream.
"Take it," he repeated and closed the door. Hilda sat still for some time after the servant had finished unlacing her shoes. A little tender smile played oddly about her carmined lips. "Dear heart," she said aloud, "I was going to." "I would simply give anything to be there," Miss Livingstone said, with a look of sincere desire. "I should love to have you, but it isn't possible.
She was immensely popular the "golden youth" of London raved about her dyed hair, painted eyes, and carmined lips even her voice, as coarse as that of a dustman, was applauded to the echo, and her dancing excited the wildest enthusiasm.
'Ma chatte, you have made me positively adorable, she would say, peering at her reflection in the ivory hand-mirror, a dazzling image of rouge and bismuth, carmined lips, diamonds, and frizzy yellow hair; 'I verily believe I look under thirty but do not you think this gown is a thought too decolletée un peu trop de peau, hein? 'Not for you, Lady Kirkbank, with your fine shoulders.
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