I Forbid the Banns! — page 232: what you’re looking at

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' 222 } ‘‘] FORBID THE BANNS!” dinner there is no knowing what we may find ourselves talking about—human affinities and animal magnetism, maybe.” Though Bertha was anxious to pursue the conversation to a logical conclusion, she thought it better to send her horse forward until it was abreast of his on the soft turf, and, side by side, they cantered up almost to the very porch of the Court. She put on one of her most subtle dinner dresses—a brocaded silk of the most delicate pink that was ever seen in nature—a pink that may only be found in the inmost lining of an East Indian shell, or onthe bosom of a maiden who has been in the arms of her lover. Bertha’s bosom was dazzlingly white in comparison with the tulle of her dress, when she sat down to dinner; but before the candles were lighted in the drawing room after dinner, her bosom had become as delicately roseate as the second example which nature affords of the subtle tint of the brocaded silk. (CONNIE OOOKS (E(0)