F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Capitolo 60
fun of the day, their appetites are stolen. Franconia, more
beautiful that never, introducing that ease, elegance and reserve of the
southern lady, ago his/her aspect in the room, the is escorted to
inclination of table on the arm of Maxwell. Delicacy, sensibility,
female character full of the genial goodness, some face is drawn with which the
the true southern lady is blessed:--she was blessed with another,
an energy to work for the good one of the they enslaved! It was able her it adds that
to the poetry of his/her nature, how much greater it would be her charm-as
very more fascinating that current quiet of thought with which her
seem blessed! There is a gentleness in his/her impulses--a pensiveness
in his/her smile--a softness in his/her emotions--a grace in his/her movements--a
ardent soul in his/her love! You are cheerful and lightsome in his/her youth; her
values its beauty, is capricious with its admirers, and it still becomes
the most affectionate mother; she can level his/her frowns, games with
the feelings, face his/her understanding touching of mercury, he/she knows the power
of his/her smiles: but once its feelings are enlisted, she is sincere
and ardent in his/her answers. If she cannot boast of the bright one
carnatics speak to in impertinent way, she can inflate the ideal painter with its fine
characteristics, his/her classical face, the shine of his/her impassioned eyes. But
she brings this fresh portrait in the years to the agenda of rarely
femininity: the flower that animates its face is but transitory; she loses
the freshness of girlhood, and in the most mature years, it is grown weak as a
sensitive flower, fading himself/herself/itself unhappy with her, unadmired from
others.
Franconia sat to the table a pensiveness that pervades his/her expression,
that melancholy of bespoke: as she threw inquiringly a round look his/her eyes,
remained fixedly on Lawrence, as if she discovered anything in his
variation way with his/her natural behavior. You addressed him;
but his replies cold it excited only anymore him: she resolved to the he/she knows