This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... them or not. Eugenie admires my ball-shoes, pale pink, with a white rose at the instep. She is struck with the pretty minnikin size of my f00t--silly child! I fancy she wishes to flatter--she says ithat it is the prettiest she has seen in her life: she does not make a bad use of her eyes either, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... them or not. Eugenie admires my ball-shoes, pale pink, with a white rose at the instep. She is struck with the pretty minnikin size of my f00t--silly child! I fancy she wishes to flatter--she says ithat it is the prettiest she has seen in her life: she does not make a bad use of her eyes either, generally speaking. Eugenie certainly is a girl of taste: she admires me uncommonly, and always says I am in good taste, and very distinguished in my appearance. Now I like this--because it is candid in the girl. A moment ago I called it flattery, but I am willing to change my mind; Eugenie is too sensible a girl to flatter. Will these little remarks on my own person make me incur the imputation of vanity. If they do, alas! what defence can a sprightly and engaging maiden offer, but by an appeal to her want of sophistication, natural naivete, and perfect ingenuousness of disposition? Are the playful observations which she makes on herself to be called by so harsh a term, as that of "vanity?"--rather consider them as so much pretty and becoming self-complacency. I could obtain but little sleep on the night preceding the looked-for day of the gaieties. I remained awake, and heard the clock on the staircase strike every succeeding hour from one till four. Four hours of sleeplessness, --not tedious indeed, but anxious, --did I endure-They were spent in thinking over my dress, my appearance, my figure, my tout-ensemble. First did my thoughts turn upon the glitter and glare, the din and gaiety of the ball-room--now upon the elegant figure of my partner, Arthur Quizzett, " making the agreeable," by my side--now thc y contemplated his sisters on the opposite side of the set, one of whom had as her partner, the Baron...
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