[A Terrible Temptation by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Terrible Temptation CHAPTER V 1/28
CHAPTER V. SIR CHARLES was behind his time in Mayfair; but the lawyer and his clerk had not arrived, and Miss Somerset was not visible. She appeared, however, at last, in a superb silk dress, the broad luster of which would have been beautiful, only the effect was broken and frittered away by six rows of gimp and fringe.
But why blame her? This is a blunder in art as universal as it is amazing, when one considers the amount of apparent thought her sex devotes to dress.
They might just as well score a fair plot of velvet turf with rows of box, or tattoo a blooming and downy cheek. She held out her hand, like a man, and talked to Sir Charles on indifferent topics, till Mr.Oldfield arrived.
She then retired into the background, and left the gentlemen to discuss the deed.
When appealed to, she evaded direct replies, and put on languid and imperial indifference.
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