Lord Arthur Savile's Crime谷月社, 30. 10. 2015 It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her. It was certainly a wonderful medley of people. Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses. In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere’s best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven. As soon as she had gone, Lady Windermere returned to the picture-gallery, where a celebrated political economist was solemnly explaining the scientific theory of music to an indignant virtuoso from Hungary, and began to talk to the Duchess of Paisley. She looked wonderfully beautiful with her grand ivory throat, her large blue forget-me-not eyes, and her heavy coils of golden hair....
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... hand twice a week regularly , ' continued Lady Windermere , ' and is most interesting about it . ' ' Good heavens ! ' said the Duchess to herself , ' he is a sort of cheiropodist after all . How very dreadful . I hope he is a foreigner ...
... hand, I forget which.' 'But surely that is tempting Providence, Gladys.' 'My dear Duchess, surely Providence can resist temptation by this time. I think every one should have their hands told once a month, so as to know what not to do ...
... hand . Duchess , you must take your glove off . No , not the left hand , the other . ' ' Dear Gladys , I really don't think it is quite right , ' said the Duchess , feebly unbuttoning a rather soiled kid glove . ' Nothing interesting ...
... hand , ' said the Duchess gravely . ' Your Grace is quite right , ' said Mr. Podgers , glancing at the little fat hand with its short square fingers , ' the mountain of the moon is not developed . The line of life , however , is ...
... hands for us . Come , Sir Thomas , show Mr. Podgers yours ' ; and a genial- looking old gentleman , in a white waistcoat , came forward , and held out a thick rugged hand , with a very long third finger . ' An adventurous nature ; four ...
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