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THE SEATED LADIES
May we venture to suppose that we have here a mother giving social
advice to a debutante daughter ?
A unique feature of B 3 is the termination below of two long fore-locks
in a piece of netting. A veil in such a position seems inexplicable.
The lively nature of the conversation between No. 3—the lady to
1 3 3 4 5
Fig. 30. The Seated Ladies : Croup B. (See Coloured Plate XVII.)
whose coiffure this net belongs—and her neighbour on the right at once
strikes the eye. The latter points her statement by thrusting forward her
right arm so as almost to lay her palm on the other's lap, while her confidante
raises hers in amazement. ' You don't say so !'—the sense of the words can
be supplied, though we may never decipher the language.
Meanwhile, the young woman on the extreme right of the group
profits by the engrossment of her companions in their own affairs to beckon
to some friend beyond.
A larger number of these ladies occupied the wider space between the
pier of the Grand Stand, that rises to the right of the little Temple, and
similar piers beyond. This space was of about twice the width of the
interval between the first piers and the borders of the Shrine, and accommo-
dated therefore about twice the number of persons. On the basis of the
THE SEATED LADIES
May we venture to suppose that we have here a mother giving social
advice to a debutante daughter ?
A unique feature of B 3 is the termination below of two long fore-locks
in a piece of netting. A veil in such a position seems inexplicable.
The lively nature of the conversation between No. 3—the lady to
1 3 3 4 5
Fig. 30. The Seated Ladies : Croup B. (See Coloured Plate XVII.)
whose coiffure this net belongs—and her neighbour on the right at once
strikes the eye. The latter points her statement by thrusting forward her
right arm so as almost to lay her palm on the other's lap, while her confidante
raises hers in amazement. ' You don't say so !'—the sense of the words can
be supplied, though we may never decipher the language.
Meanwhile, the young woman on the extreme right of the group
profits by the engrossment of her companions in their own affairs to beckon
to some friend beyond.
A larger number of these ladies occupied the wider space between the
pier of the Grand Stand, that rises to the right of the little Temple, and
similar piers beyond. This space was of about twice the width of the
interval between the first piers and the borders of the Shrine, and accommo-
dated therefore about twice the number of persons. On the basis of the