Social Silhouettes (Being the Impressions of Mr. Mark Manhattan) Edited By Edgar Fawcett
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"It will give me great pleasure." This was one of those conventional white lies which we are forever called upon to utter, if we would preserve anything like peace in our social dealings, and retain a shred of reputation for even decent amiability. The truth was that I did not at all want to meet Mrs. Holdridge. I had heard a great deal about this lady, and I had made up my mind that during the coming season, while she appeared in public as the chaperon of her dehwtante daughter, I would use al...l polite means of avoiding her. This daughter had pleased me at first sight ;' and the lily in her soft name struck me as appro- priate enough to have been prompted when she was christened by some fairy sure of her sweetness A PILLAB Off VIRTUE. 239 yet in bud. She was a little taller than the com- mon maidenly stature, but so slightly above it that this trait gave the pale, chiselled purity of her face a new and gentle dignity. Her meekness and her chastity appealed to you the instant your gaze dwelt on her ; she made one think of " Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable ; " her hair would have been flaxen but for certain glistening threads in its dense, banded folds.
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