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Excerpt from Prudence: A Story of �sthetic London
Asthetes, and they look forward to something even more aesthetic in the future, but the young ladies are very young, and still human enough to enjoy a dance; so that once or twice in the season cards are issued for an evening which will include some hours devoted to Terpsichore. But, at the same time, Mrs. Poynsett's friends well know what is required of them, even on such an occasion, in the way of costume. The feelings as well as the tastes of the company must be consulted; for are we not so delicately organized today that we must be saved any kind of artistic shock? As Barley Simmonson, a constant visitor at the Poynsetts', re marked, There is power to pain - actually to pain - in that shade of our youth known as magenta or solferino, just as there is the power to lull anguish into calm - and here Mr. Simmonson smiled with ineffable tenderness in Bordone's reds.
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