Capitolo 68
[The illustration: You Widow of Grass--small Mrs. "Lollipop Dolce."]
Does the gentleman of his/her breast sit on his/her throne slightly?
[December 6 th 1879]
Few her Mrs. Lollipop certainly has it tried a source of disappointment
to his/her friends of lady. You/they have looked Them at him for three going of seasons
slightly and happily through all the cheerfulness of imaginary World; they has
listened to the scandal of the cuckoos among the pine-trees and
rhododendrons, but you/they have not picked up them him stumbling. Oh, no, them
he/she will never pick her/it up stumbling. You don't stumble for their fun:
perhaps she does him/it stumble when they follows the finger of the fantastic and light foot, but
there is no evidence; there is only a zephyr of conjecture, only the
the low whisper of world stormed not yet in storm--not yet.
Yes, she is a source of disappointment to them. You/they have noticed him to Them
points; its beauty has it burned him in their jealousy; his/her happy
laughter has ventilated their contempt; its generous presence is an affront to
them, as it is her mature and figure of lissom. They morally pronounce her/it to Them
defective; they says his/her nature it has a stain; they cools his/her popularity
with silent smiles of the slow debasement. But they has anybody
details; their calumny is not concrete. It is an amorphous
accusation, sweeping and vague, spleen-been born and proofless.
You certainly know whether to dress. Its weeds easily sit and easily on
their delicious soil. It is probable that you think about her as a sweet statue, warm
painted in water-colours. (Who would not his/her Pygmalions be?) If she adds
a garment is an improvement; if she removes a garment it is a
improvement; if she dresses him the hair it is best; if she allows him to fall
in a brown fall on his/her white shoulders still it is best; when
it is still in it curly-carpets you/he/she is enchanting. If You stain her point
you sniff with a burnt cork the effect it is irresistible; if you stick a
blooms in his/her hair it is an elaborate suit, a complete custom--her