Capitolo 25
there, weakly blushing, waiting for being admired by his/her brother in
his/her cleanly tid bit dainty appropriate blue suit, his/her halves separated lips and her
arm they gaily contained to his/her side, she looked around as very as a
delicate portrait as you/he/she is given to meat of mere human creature and blood to look.
'It is delicious, Edie', said Harry, observing her/it from, head
to foot with a smile of satisfaction that its blush did deepens;
'it is simply delicious. Where did it find his idea on the earth?'
'It is partly well, the present style', said Edie; 'but me taken the
notion of the bodice partly also from that Vandycks, you know, in
the Building Boxwoods in Genoa.'
'Me memory, I remember', Harry responded, while contemplating her/it with
an eye that admires. 'Only you become now round and you show me as he/she sits
behind, Edie. You remember Théophile Gautier it says that great
advantage that a beautiful woman possesses on a beautiful statue
it is this, that while a man has to walk round the beautiful statue
to see him/it from every side he can ask to the beautiful woman
to become him round and to leave her/it to it they see, without requiring to
takes that trouble.'
'Théophile Gautier was a horrid man, and if someone but my brother
quoted such thing as that to me I should be very angry with him
indeed.'
'Théophile Gautier was completely as horrid as You it considers him/it to be,
and if You pits someone but my sister it is not probable I owe
you/he/she has quoted him to you. But if there is some statue on the earth most beautiful
or more graced of you,
then the Venus of Milo should immediately be pulverized to last
atoms for a line artistic impostor.'
'Thanks, Harry, for the compliment. What beautiful things that you owe
is able of motto to someone the other sister, when you are this way
kind and elegant to Your really.'
'On the contrary one, Popsy, when it comes to someone the other sister
I am very too nervous and afraid to say anything of some kind. But