 | 1854 - 332 Seiten
...merely the natural consequence that to faint was feminine. Eve, she thought, was made for salvolatile. . Miss Lillywhite was a spinster of seven-and-forty....the more pleasing in Miss Lillywhite, inasmuch as »he might have passed for forty ; nay, had she stickled ever so little for it, »he might have got... | |
 | 1850 - 640 Seiten
...self-complacency, but to the simple but inevitable truth that she was made to faint. She would not have recognized any beauty in the art of fainting, but merely the...And this gay veracity was the more pleasing in Miss Ljllywhite, inasmuch as she might have passed for forty ; nay, had she stickled ever so little for... | |
 | 1854 - 330 Seiten
...selfcomplacency, but to the simple but inevitable truth that she was made to faint. She would not have recognized any beauty in the art of fainting, but merely the...faint Was feminine. Eve, she thought, was made for salvolatile. Miss Lillywhite was a spinster of seven-and-forty, " I am six — seven — eight-and-forty,... | |
 | Clara Arnold - 1855 - 322 Seiten
...selfcomplacency, but to the simple but inevitable truth that she was made to faint. She would not have recognized any beauty in the art of fainting, but merely the...faint was feminine. Eve, she thought, was made for salvolatile. Miss Lillywhite was a spinster of seven-and-forty. "I am six — seven — eight-and-forty,... | |
 | 1863 - 588 Seiten
...self-compkceacy, but to the simple but inevitable truth that she was made to faint. She would not have recognized any beauty in the art of fainting, but merely the...Eve, she thought, was made for sal volatile. Miss LillywMte was a spinster of seven-and-forty. " I am six — seven — eight-and-fbrty next birthday,"... | |
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... beauty, spreads them because it was ordained to do so ; and after all, had Miss Daffy been philosophically examined upon her proneness to faint, she would have attributed the habit to no self-complacency, but to the simple but inevitable truth that... 