[The Innocents Abroad Part 4 of 6 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Innocents Abroad Part 4 of 6 CHAPTER XXXVII 8/27
It is easy to see that he is kind and affectionate There is something very noble in his expression when his cap is off.
There is none of that cunning in his eye that all of us noticed in Louis Napoleon's. The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits of foulard (or foulard silk, I don't know which is proper,) with a small blue spot in it; the dresses were trimmed with blue; both ladies wore broad blue sashes about their waists; linen collars and clerical ties of muslin; low-crowned straw-hats trimmed with blue velvet; parasols and flesh-colored gloves.
The Grand Duchess had no heels on her shoes.
I do not know this of my own knowledge, but one of our ladies told me so. I was not looking at her shoes.
I was glad to observe that she wore her own hair, plaited in thick braids against the back of her head, instead of the uncomely thing they call a waterfall, which is about as much like a waterfall as a canvas-covered ham is like a cataract.
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