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84 FEMCIE BE FAUVEAU.
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garden . There was a sparkle in her eyes , a sagacity and shrewdness in full her remarks experience , which of life were of most decidedl of y its mundane hases . and In of her all was its richest evidentl emo y a -
tions , and her mobile and , practical French p organisation , gave it the most vivacious acceptance . She certainly enjoyed existence , whatever her
predecessors in this lovely seclusion had done . And yet , how much had had she must opene endure have d d upon much suffered the in terrors ! the An cause of aristocrat the of guillotine the and Bourbons leg and itimist she . Her -was , her own as famil proud eyes y
of these memories of exile , of proscription , and , of the scaffold , as most persons are of honors and titles . Her chivalrous loyalty looked
upon them as dignities , and the privilege of having suffered for the the famil ruin y to and which exile she of was her devoted own . was cheaply earned in her eyes by
I went with her up stairs into the drawing-room . A small room hang which ings looks , carved like the chairs parlor silver of an crucifixes Abbess ; and furnished gold grounded with antique
_-Raphselite pictures . Some , of these pictures , are very valuable . pre One particularly struck me of Sodoma ' s , —a head of Christ , crowned
with thorns , in which the expression is divine . Another , St . Antonio de Toledo , to whom , while praying in his cellwas vouchsafed a vision
his of the missal infant , by Saviour Ribera , who I believe appeare is painted d to him with , standing the intense in a glory pathos on
, , and glowing sensuousness of the Spanish school . The figure of the child Christ seems to light up the room .
After waiting a few minutes the door opened , a lady entered , and Madame de Fauveau introduced me to her daughter , Mademoiselle
de Fauveau . Mademoiselle de Fauveau does not resemble her mother . Her
face is fairer , graver , less marked . The forehead is low and broad the brown eyes are soft but penetratingthe nose aquilinethe mouth ,
finely cut , well closed , and slightly sarcastic , . Perhaps sarcastic , is too strong a word , the untranslatable word jin ' would better define
the expression . She is of middle height , and her figure is flexible and well formed ' . Her ordinary studio dress is of velvet , of that
feuitte _'mortecolor Madame Cottin has made famous , a jacket of the same fastened by a small leather belta foulard round the neckand
a velvet cap . Her hair is blonde , cut square , on the forehead and short , on the neck , left rather longer at the sides in the Vandyck manner .
The build of the figure , the shape of the face , the aspect of the op reveals presence inions the , , very give energy s strong the impress of ly resistanc held and of a e enunci firm not of but ated defiance not and aggressive . in Uncompromising defence nature of which . It
we are prepared to endure martyrdom if it , be necessary , give such a look to the face . But combined with this peculiarity in
Mademoiselle de Fauveau , is a look of thoughtful melancholy , such as I have the head seen represented in a statuette by of Retzsch herself modelled his sketches some of time Faust . In mi fact ht
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84 Femcie Be Fauveau.
84 _FEMCIE BE FAUVEAU .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/12/
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