This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...position, as much exposed to daily attack as that of any prime minister. Let us venture into the sleeping chamber of one of these beauties, late one morning in the year 1830, just at the hour when she wakes from her slumbers. A cloud of delicate perfume rises from a basket of flowers, set on a gilded tripod, and the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...position, as much exposed to daily attack as that of any prime minister. Let us venture into the sleeping chamber of one of these beauties, late one morning in the year 1830, just at the hour when she wakes from her slumbers. A cloud of delicate perfume rises from a basket of flowers, set on a gilded tripod, and the torch of a tiny Cupid, glowing with enamel, and set with precious stones, sheds its tender light over the sleeping beauty's chamber. The soft ray, reflected, here, from the mirror, shimmers, there, on draperies of azure silk, and reveals a scene of dainty disorder, strewn with the paraphernalia of a life of pleasure, with the treasures of a successful coquette, and even with others of a more sentimental order--cashmere shawls, cast carelessly aside, ribbons and gauzes in a score of shades, awaiting the fair lady's selection, books, feathers, flowers, precious gems, extracts from favourite authors and unfinished manuscripts, an embroidery frame, with the jg2-needle left in the work, an album full of half completed sketches and portraits. It is the sanctuary, in fact, of a prosperous woman's home. The furniture is of the style considered, in those days, sumptuous--Gothic decoration, bright and pleasing pictures. A clock adorned with emblematic figures strikes the hour of eleven, and rouses the lovely sleeper, whose fair features and graceful form stamp her a queen of fashion, in all the glory of her youth and beauty. Slowly the belle awakes, and her eyes, still heavy with slumber, rove round the darkened room. She stretches her limbs in languid enjoyment of the warmth of her soft couch, passes her hand across her forehead, still heated with the fatigues of the preceding evening, and a tiny, lazy sigh escapes her ruby lips. At last she rings her be...
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