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His heart ached with a dull, unpleasant sensation, with a sort of oppressive emptiness. "The devil take those who first invented balls!" was his reflection. "Who derives any real pleasure from them? In this province there exist want and scarcity everywhere: yet folk go in for balls! How absurd, too, were those overdressed women!
Her mother, always veiled, sitting beside her, a thin, tall woman with passionate eyes and ever restless hands; the women mostly overdressed, and the sleek, prosperous men trying to look meek. At school and at Girton, chapel, which she had attended no oftener than she was obliged, had had about it the same atmosphere of chill compulsion. But here was poetry.
Neither the prayers nor the anger of Madame Odinska had any power to change the sentence. While the Mother Superior calmly pronounced her decree, she was taking the measure of this stout foreigner who appeared in behalf of Jacqueline, a woman overdressed, yet at the same time shabby, who had a far from well-bred or aristocratic air.
"'Percy, cries his wife, 'have you forgotten your manhood? "'Yes, says Percy. "'Darling, calls Henrietta, 'will you listen to reason a moment? "'No, says Alonzo. "'It's that creature from Alaska leading them on, says Mrs. Judge Ballard 'that overdressed drunken rowdy! "Ben Sutton looked right hurt at this.
A woman of about medium height, still young but rather over-developed, artificial and overdressed, with a full bust and thick red lips and lustrous eyes of greenish grey her beauty was of the obtrusive type that is made to catch the eye on the street and in noisy crowded rooms. When Fanny kissed her, Ethel shrank. "I mustn't do that!" she exclaimed to herself.
Certain sins lie within the social code and others do not. Women of her class, unless kleptomaniac, did not steal. It wasn't done. With reason or unreason they classed thieves of any sort with harlots, burglars, firebugs, embezzlers, forgers, murderers, and common people who overdressed and drank too much in public; and withdrew their skirts. Moreover, Aileen had been with her in Europe.
Deliberately her daughter had withdrawn herself amongst them, and they had given her this return for her company. They had kept her fresh and gentle in a circle where freshness was soon lost and gentleness put aside. Sylvia Thesiger was at this time seventeen, although her mother dressed her to look younger, and even then overdressed her like a toy.
She praised Honora's gown, but left a lingering impression that she thought her overdressed, without definitely saying so. And she made innumerable and often embarrassing inquiries about Honora's aunt and uncle, and her life in St. Louis, and her friends there, and how she had happened to go to Sutcliffe to school. Sometimes Honora blushed, but she answered them all good-naturedly.
Every one who reads these lines will know perfectly well what is meant, when reference is made to the good sense and practical utility of English women's dress. So universal is this, that it might almost be laid down as an axiom, that the American woman, no matter in what walk of life you observe her, or what the time or the place, is always persistently and grotesquely overdressed.
Upon the silence that followed the girl thrust an "Oh!" into which she put grief, protest, anger, consternation. "Mother!" she cried. "Did you know? How could you allow how did you come to do such a terrible thing?" Her mother put her hands to her face and sat down and began to sob with hysterical display of emotion. Farr scowled a bit as he looked at her. She was overdressed.
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