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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

CHAPTER VI
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Her features had the regularity of his, and were of the same Jewish type; they had also the charm of childish innocency of expression.

Home-life and its trustful love permitted the negligent attire in which she appeared.

A chemise buttoned upon the right shoulder, and passing loosely over the breast and back and under the left arm, but half concealed her person above the waist, while it left the arms entirely nude.

A girdle caught the folds of the garment, marking the commencement of the skirt.

The coiffure was very simple and becoming--a silken cap, Tyrian-dyed; and over that a striped scarf of the same material, beautifully embroidered, and wound about in thin folds so as to show the shape of the head without enlarging it; the whole finished by a tassel dropping from the crown point of the cap.


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