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For there was going on in the churchyard the only thing I saw that day that seemed to me to strike a false note; a silly posing of village girls, self-conscious and overdressed, before the camera of a photographer a playing at aesthetics, bringing into the village life a touch of unwholesome vanity and the vulgar affectation of the world.
I remember that Madame Mirliflore was unapproachably superior to the other women present, in the perfect beauty of her dress, and in the ample justice which she did to the luxurious dinner set before us. I remember the Major's young prima donna, more round-eyed, more overdressed, more shrill and strident as the coming "Queen of Song," than ever.
The inevitable shamefaced Englishman departed in tow of an overdressed Frenchwoman with pride of conquest in her smirk. The equally inevitable alcoholic was dug out from under his table and thrown into a cab. An American girl insisted on climbing upon a table to dance, but swayed and had to be helped down, giggling foolishly.
"He says he came to call. He's got a box of candy." "Piffle! What do I care about candy? He's just a kid!" Naomi went to the hall door. "Right this way, Charley." And as the slender, overdressed young gentleman of nineteen entered the room, Carroll again glimpsed the light of amusement in Naomi's eyes. Mr.
She was an overdressed lady, inclining to embonpoint, but traces of the Rose of Sharon were still visible. "Why don't you drive 'round to the stables?" suggested Mr. Crewe, unaware of a smile. Austen did not answer. He was, in fact, looking towards the doorway, and the group on the porch were surprised to see a gleam of mirthful understanding start in his eyes.
She went raging up and down the room like a lovely fury, her hair disordered, her eyes flashing, and her cheeks new-crimsoned with anger. 'Tell me tell me, he besought her, 'what has happened. 'This has happened, she answered, with a sudden tense quiet: 'your wife has been here your wife, an overdressed, painted French trull, so drunk that she could barely stand. 'Good God! said Paul.
He was carried in on a golden litter by ten huge negroes, preceded by twelve lictors bearing fasces wreathed with laurel; and he took his seat, robed in purple and embroidery, on a magnificent throne in the middle of the tribune above the starting sheds; however, Dada troubled herself no more about the overdressed old man.
She was a lady of more than middle age, dressed with certain personal audacities of color and shape, rather than overdressed, and she thrust forward, in expression of her amazement, a very small hand, wonderfully well gloved; her manner was full of the anxiety of a woman who had fought hard for a high place in society, and yet suggested a latent hatred of people who, in yielding to her, had made success bitter and humiliating.
Frank could not repress a start as he observed the boy whom Bob was facing. He was a newcomer he was Gill Mace. It appeared that the nephew of the Tipton jeweler had been sent to the same school as Frank. Gill Mace looked as mean as ever. There was a sneer on his face. He was loudly dressed, or rather overdressed.
The overdressed, idle dowagers; the matrons, with their too-gay frocks, their too-full days, their too-rich food; the girls, all crudeness, artifice, all scheming openly for their own advantage, where among them all was happiness?
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