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Updated: May 26, 2025
The consuls had it on great days entirely purple and embroidered, and all senators and ex-magistrates had broader borders of purple. The ladies wore a long graceful wrapping-gown; the boys a short tunic, and round their necks was hung a hollow golden ball called a bulla, or bubble.
By this time Amelia had thrown on a wrapping-gown, and was come up into the room, where the serjeant and his wife were lying on the bed and Booth standing like a motionless statue by the bed-side. Amelia had some difficulty to conquer the effects of her own surprize on this occasion; for a more ghastly and horrible sight than the bed presented could not be conceived.
No ghost stood beside me, nor anything of spectral aspect; merely a motherly, dumpy little woman, in a large shawl, a wrapping-gown, and a clean, trim, nightcap. I said I was English, and immediately, without further prelude, we fell to a most remarkable conversation. I answered in mine.
She did not wear an invalid's shawl, but a graceful wrapping-gown of pale colours such as she had always loved, and which suited well her delicate, fragile beauty. Closely tied over her silvery hair the only sign of age was a little cap, whose soft pink gauze lay against her cheek that cheek which even now was all unwrinkled, and tinted with a lovely faint rose colour, like a young girl's.
Paul had been cased, by Lady Jane's orders, in flannel; he had over that a pair of trousers of Alfred's much too long, for the Kings were very tall, and he was small and stunted in growth and a great wrapping-gown that Mr. Cope had once worn when he was ill at college, and over his shaven head a night-cap that had been their father's.
The easy-chair filled with cushions, the extended limbs swathed in flannel, the wide wrapping-gown and nightcap, showed illness; but the dimmed eye, once so replete with living fire the blabber lip, whose dilation and compression used to give such character to his animated countenance the stammering tongue, that once poured forth such floods of masculine eloquence, and had often swayed the opinion of the sages whom he addressed, all these sad symptoms evinced that my friend was in the melancholy condition of those in whom the principle of animal life has unfortunately survived that of mental intelligence.
Cecily and Sir Marmaduke both replied with a 'No, no! and were thankful, though in much suspense at the momentary pause, while again he leant back on the cushions, looked steadily at the pin-holes, that formed themselves into the word 'Sweet heart, then suddenly began to draw up the loose sleeve of his wrapping-gown and unbutton the wristband of his right sleeve.
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