To become a member of the Corporation she had to make, as it is written in the statutes, a figure by itself in shaded gold, a sixth part as tall as if life-size.

You would have been received, my Angelique." Again there was an unbroken silence.

Felicien watched her constantly, as she stooped forward, absorbed in her task, quite as if she were entirely alone.

For the hair of the saint, contrary to the general rule, she had had the same idea as he; that was, to use no silk, but to re-cover gold with gold, and she kept ten needles at work with this brilliant thread of all shades, from the dark red of dying embers, to the pale, delicate yellow tint of the leaves of the forest trees in the autumn.

Agnes was thus covered from her neck to her ankles with a stream of golden hair.
It began at the back of her head, covered her body with a thick mantle, flowed in front of her from the shoulders in two waves which united under the chin, and fell down to her feet in one wavy sheet.