Agnes Vol. 2 — page 256: what you’re looking at

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AQNES, OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE. She moment when the curtain drew up and the first scene had commoenced,— when the door of that box opened and a lady entered. She was alone: but this circumstance being by no means unusual on the Continent, did mot excite any particular attention on the part of these who bent their eyes in that direction to contemplate this lady. And few there were within the walls of that theatre whose attention was not attracted from the stage to this !ovoly occupant of that box ; end for several moments there was a sound resembling a eup- ressod buzz of «dmiration—for the great beauty ‘that lady at once produced a marvellous effect. “Who is she?” inquired at least a hundred whispering voices in different parts of tho house. No one could answer the question: she was a stranger: she had not been before seen in any public place at Turia. } “What magnificent raven hair!” said an No. 84.—AGNES. a Fd ‘ ¢ €; ae . o , @ ‘ * = . f i q° t a ff ; , 4 “" ! Bes i? , - as, . . “f «4 ae ae Wife oon eon F \s fp -_ ¢ gph 7, 1% ay. wine ' 4 a Vi 1A [sre hes t - 2 Oo ? sar Rio a eaict a, Fr og ees -_" “tina at a on = = Fad wr. o wo a f’ . wre eo A pw” : “ ‘ . _« —a awe fr y . « - 8 we! = eee hed -v . a4 — Ww? ~e 6 - attaché of the Austrian Legation to a bromer. diplomatiat. “And what magnificent dark eyes!” ejaculated the latter: “how luminous and how languishing ! how bright and yet how melting !” “ What an admirable figure!” was whispered in another box by an aide-de-camp of the King of Piedmont, to a friend with whom he was seated. “There is the blending of the style of the Hebc with the Sylph—the luxurious proportions of tho former being subdued and adjusted, so to speak, by the grace and elegance of the latter! What a beautiful neck! what a superb byst! and yet what @ wasp-like waiat!” “And now she smiles,” said the other gentle- man, “ Look! sho recognises some one in another box!—and what a display of magnificent tooth! Who can she possibly be P’”’ “ Her toilot ia admirable!” observed the aide- Vow II, 246 CONIC OOOKS COLUM