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Beauty of form and grace of vesture (1892)

Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 202

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osty, one should keepin fine condition, be bracing and brilliant, in har-mony with the autumn weather. One should belike a gorgeous leaf, ripening slowly and fadingslowly, not shrivelled and cast down in the firstbleak day. Autumn may be a long, bright, exhil-arating season, with a golden Indian… … Fig. 71. BEAUTY OF FORM. I97 bloom. There is a poetry, a mystery, about thesethat speak of experiences veiled by the past.Such colours are found on the wrong side of tapes-tries and brocades. A placid old lady in raiment of gray, or fawn, orwhite, may be as welcome as a tender touch or anessential…

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