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"Couldn't I have a guimpe with it?" she suggested hopefully; "if I had a guimpe, it would look different." It would indeed! "A guimpe!" echoed both Elinor and Miss Rosa. Arethusa nodded, and turned once more to the mirror, "It's the sleeves she wouldn't like," she lifted one to show its lack as a sleeve from Miss Eliza's point of view, "and the neck, besides.
She simply could not have three dresses. She would have to get a very simple one for the sermon and do the best she could for graduation. Whatever she got for that must be made with a guimpe that could be taken out to make it a little more festive for the ball. But where could she get even two pretty dresses?
After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Saint-Benoit, mounts to the chin.
But this face severely framed in a starched white guimpe and floating black veil belonged to my Past in several ways." He showed interest. "Your friend is a nun? At the Convent here? How did you come across her?" "She called to see the Bishop's son while I was with him.
"Rather savagely dressed," said Diane de Christeuil, laughing to show her fine teeth. This remark was a flash of light to the others. Not being able to impugn her beauty, they attacked her costume. "That is true," said la Montmichel; "what makes you run about the streets thus, without guimpe or ruff?" "That petticoat is so short that it makes one tremble," added la Gaillefontaine.
The little old crooked, nimble Sister, with the long, pale sheep-face, dropped on her knees beside that prone column of stately womanhood, removed the Mother's hooded mantle, loosened the guimpe and habit, and worked strenuously to revive her, dropping tears. "My beautiful, my poor lamb!" she crooned. "What's come to her? What wicked shadow's black on all of us?
The loose sleeve of thin black serge flowed away from the strong, finely moulded wrist; the white starched guimpe showed snowy between the drooping folds of the nun's veil.... These familiar things Lynette drank in with a sense of unspeakable content and pleasure. Then her eyes opened widely, and she knew.
Maynard said they must make haste to get dressed for the company. Marjorie wore a light green cashmere, with a white embroidered guimpe, which was one of her favorite frocks. Her hair was tied with big white bows, and a sprig of holly was tucked in at one side. She flew down to the living-room, to find baby Rosamond and her mother already there.
She stepped slowly down from the little platform where she had been standing for the better view all around, and her grey eyes filled rapidly with the bitter tears of disappointment. It was Tragedy to give it up! But if there was to be no guimpe.... Her fumbling fingers were reaching under the flowers at the girdle for the hooks which had fastened her into it, when Elinor stopped her.
The sweeping black folds were as imposing as imperial purple, and the starched guimpe framed a beauty that was grave, stern, almost severe until she smiled, and then you caught your breath, because you had seen what great poets write of, and great painters try to render, and only great musicians by their impalpable, mysterious tone-art can come nearest to conveying the earthly beauty that has been purged of all grosser particles of dross in the white fires of the Divine Love.
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