A woman like Madame Schontz, who plays the great lady, and whose intrinsic value is real, was sure to be an object of pride to Fabien, who fell in love with her to the point of never presenting himself before her eyes except in full dress, varnished boots, lemon-kid gloves, embroidered shirt and frill, waistcoat more or less variegated, in short, with all the external symptoms of profound worship.
When he visited Steve's office in the first flush of Steve's success, to ask the thousandth favour from him, and spied Trudy Burrows in all her lemon-kid booted, pink-chiffon waisted, red-haired loveliness as virile and bewitching as any one Gaylord's pale little mind could picture he proved himself a "true democrat," as he boasted at the club, and offered her his hand in marriage in short order.
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