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The sense of taste proceeds, in fact, upon the principle of gradual selection and elimination; it refuses first what is positively destructive, next what is more remotely deleterious, and finally what is only undesirable or over-luscious.
Presently, Irene skimmed down, elegantly gowned, with her pale, straw-coloured hair done in the latest and most extreme fashion, and an over-luscious atmosphere of perfume enveloping her. "Why how do you do, Miss Blythe?" she said sweetly. "This is a very unexpected pleasure."
He had been born, she made out, somewhere between the Danube and the Oder; he spoke familiarly of the frontier of Silesia. He had studied in Munich and Vienna, and some of his things sumptuous, highly-charged, over-luscious showed clearly enough the influence of Makart and the lawless vicinity of gipsy Hungary.
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