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Updated: July 29, 2025
The most courtly dame might have envied her fine and taper fingers, and fancied she could improve them by protecting them against the sun, or by rendering them snowy white with paste or cosmetic, but this was questionable; nothing certainly could improve the small foot and finely-turned ankle, so well displayed in the red hose and smart little yellow buskin, fringed with gold.
A snowy turban, from which hung on either temple a cluster of crimson camellias still wet with the night-dew; long raven curls of undisturbed grace falling on shoulders of that indescribable and dewy coolness which follows a morning bath. How naively, comments the critic, does this nobleman of nature recommend the use of this rare cosmetic!
Wayland desired to know from where she found the recipe for the cosmetic which had nearly cost her so dearly. "It was in a shelf in the wainscoting, in a sort of little study at that house," said Aurelia. "Among other papers?" "Quantities of other papers." "Of what kind?" "Letters, and bills, and wills, and parchments! Oh, so dusty!
"By the way, on the road there we bowed to the present Deputy to the Cortes, he who will be my opponent in the approaching election, Senor Garcia Padilla." "Dear man! What a coincidence! What sort is he?" "He is tall, with a reddish aquiline nose, a greyish moustache, full of cosmetic, a poor type." "He is a Liberal?" "Yes, he is a Liberal, because Don Calixto is a Conservative.
Outlandish as they were, however, no face on all the encircling canvas was as grotesque as the one which emerged from under the bed late in the afternoon, the day the box of cosmetic was received. Mary had crept under the bed in order to escape Norman's prying eyes in case he should glance into the tent in search of her.
He stood gazing in open-mouthed wonder at the immense white marble table, with its water spigots and its basins, its sponges and boxes, its pots and vials and cups; and he counted the brushes by the dozen brushes hard and soft, brushes for the hair, for the beard, for the hands, and the application of cosmetic to the mustaches and eyebrows.
But he said nothing. He preferred to spring surprises, only hoping he himself might not be overwhelmed in one. By the time they reached Cornificia's house he was in such a state of nervousness, and so blanched, that he had to summon his servant into the litter to rub cosmetic on his cheeks. He took one of Galen's famous strychnine pills before he could prevent his limbs from trembling.
They examined Eudora with more than childish curiosity; pulled every article of her dress, to ascertain its colour and its texture; teased to see all her jewels; wanted to know the name of everything in Greek; requested her to sing Greek songs; were impatient to learn Ionian dances; conjured her to paint a black streak from the eyes to the ears; and were particularly anxious to ascertain what cosmetic the Grecian ladies used to stain the tips of their fingers.
Having parted from her with what may be conjectured to have been a rather bony kiss of a cosmetic flavour, he gave his daughter his blessing, graciously. And having thus hinted that there was something remarkable in the wind, he again went to bed.
The yacht had only got back to Cowes in time for the ball, and all had been hurry and excitement while the ladies dressed and crossed to the club, the spray dashing over their opera mantles, poor Lady Kirkbank's complexion yellow with mal de mer, in spite of a double coating of Blanc de Fedora, the last fashionable cosmetic.
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