"Her figure was slight and graceful, inclining even to fragility but those iron jelloids she had been taking of late had done her a world of good much better than the Widow Welch's female pills and she was much better of those discharges she used to get and that tired feeling." (U13.83)
"The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect." (U13.87)
"Her hands were of finely veined alabaster with tapering fingers and as white as lemon juice and queen of ointments could make them though it was not true that she used to wear kid gloves in bed or take a milk footbath either." (U13.89)
"Bertha Supple told that once to Edy Boardman, a deliberate lie, when she was black out at daggers drawn with Gerty (the girl chums had of course their little tiffs from time to time like the rest of mortals) and she told her not to let on whatever she did that it was her that told her or she'd never speak to her again." (U13.92)
"No. Honour where honour is due. There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep." (U13.96)
"Had kind fate but willed her to be born a gentlewoman of high degree in her own right and had she only received the benefit of a good education" (U13.99)
"Gerty MacDowell might easily have held her own beside any lady in the land and have seen herself exquisitely gowned with jewels on her brow and patrician suitors at her feet vying with one another to pay their devoirs to her." (U13.101)
"Mayhap it was this, the love that might have been, that lent to her softlyfeatured face at whiles a look, tense with suppressed meaning, that imparted a strange yearning tenderness to the beautiful eyes, a charm few could resist." (U13.104)
"Why have women such eyes of witchery? Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive." (U13.107)
"It was Madame Vera Verity, directress of the Woman Beautiful page of the Princess novelette, who had first advised her to try eyebrowleine which gave that haunting expression to the eyes," (U13.109)
"so becoming in leaders of fashion, and she had never regretted it. Then there was blushing scientifically cured and how to be tall increase your height" (U13.112)
"and you have a beautiful face but your nose? That would suit Mrs Dignam because she had a button one." (U13.114)
As discovered by Andy Boroson, a visitor to the site, this line appears prominently in American ads starting ca. 1915. The 'nose-shaper' it promoted was patented in the USA (#1,378,455) by a John Higlers in 1921. Thanks Andy!
As discovered by Andy Boroson, a visitor to the site, this line appears prominently in American ads starting ca. 1915. The 'nose-shaper' it promoted was patented in the USA (#1,378,455) by a John Higlers in 1921. Thanks Andy!
"But Gerty's crowning glory was her wealth of wonderful hair. It was dark brown with a natural wave in it. She had cut it that very morning on account of the new moon and it nestled about her pretty head in a profusion of luxuriant clusters and pared her nails too, Thursday for wealth. And just now at Edy's words as a telltale flush," (U13.115)
"delicate as the faintest rosebloom, crept into her cheeks she looked so lovely in her sweet girlish shyness that of a surety God's fair land of Ireland did not hold her equal." (U13.120)
"For an instant she was silent with rather sad downcast eyes. She was about to retort but something checked the words on her tongue. Inclination prompted her to speak out: dignity told her to be silent. The pretty lips pouted awhile but then she glanced up and broke out into a joyous little laugh which had in it all the freshness of a young May morning. She knew right well, no-one better, what made squinty Edy say that because of him cooling in his attentions when it was simply a lovers' quarrel." (U13.123)
"As per usual somebody's nose was out of joint about the boy that had the bicycle off the London bridge road always riding up and down in front of her windows." (U13.129)