The mauve decade.

"I looked everywhere for a muslin for to-day and couldn't find any I liked, so I was forced to wear my mauve silk," observed Miss Smith, complacently settling the silvery folds of her dress.

It rarely exceeds 6 feet in height, with dark-green, wrinkled leaves, and erect spikes of pale mauve flowers.

The hall is at least a protest against the wearisome stories concerning wills, misers in old castles, lost heirs, and the woeful solutions of such thingsshe who has been kept in the castle cellar for twenty years restored to the delights of hair-pins and a mauve dress, the ingénue to the protecting arm, etc.

She had easily discovered a bridesmaid's costume in her wardrobe, bodice with intercrossing stripes, short petticoat in green woolen, mauve stockings, straw hat with artificial flowers, a suspicion of black on the eyelids and of rouge on the cheeks.

Mrs. Gray, in an attractive mauve house-gown, came in from the kitchen.

Her whole soul was concentrated upon the freshness of her complexion and the angle of the mauve hat on her dark waved hair.

VII A STILL-CREATION-DAY The blue-green sea is living velvet, and full of light-rings; it goes out to a distant mauve horizon, near which sea-gulls with white gleaming wings are flying.

The mauve lady was waiting for the pastoral handshake, but he did not notice her.

A little mauve lamp shed its glow upon the tired woman in one of the plump, grey-enamel beds.

Brownsea Island, that occupies the centre of this inland sea, with its wooded banks of dark greenery makes an effective foil to the sparkling waters and long mauve line of the Purbeck Hills.

I drew hieroglyphics with the point of the mauve parasol in the soft moss beneath our feet.

Where would she go with her mauve peignoir?

The sun shone all day long from a cold, cloudless sky upon a waste of flashing snow, with here and there trees sticking out of it, and strange red morning lights in the sky behind it, and sweeping winds across it, and in the sunset the white hillsides slowly changed to a mauve pink.

The young woman, who was small, slight and brown, was dressed with a disregard of the fashion which contrasted oddly with the mauve powder on her face and the traces of artificial colour in her dark untidy hair.

Wonderful touches which the imitative Giorgionesque painter would not have thought of are the girdle, a mauve-purple now, with a sharply emphasised golden fringe, and the sapphire-blue jewel in the brooch.

He was wearing mauve pyjamas and carried a pistol.

The handle was trimmed with mauve ribbon.

The good Sisters of the Society of the Broken Heart had taught Dolores to sing beautifully, to play upon the piano and the guitar, to embroider, to paint mauve roses on pink tambourines and many other useful arts, graces and accomplishmentsbut they had not taught her practical morality nor anything of cooking, marketing, plain sewing, house-cleaning or anything else of house-keeping.

Her mauve blue eyes looked larger than they were because of their dark brows and lashes, and the faint mauve smears about their lids.

At that Miss Coblenz sat back on her tall wooden heels, mauve spats crinkling.

For awhile they wandered in the sunset light, she with her face to the sky and the wonderful mauve streamers of cloud that spread towards her from the west.

"With yellow stripes!" shouts the H.C. "On a mauve background," says she, warming to it.

Only a pale, cold mauve tint was left where the flame had blazed.

They, too, were works of art, in their soft mauve morocco bindings, chiffré, with her monogram like the other, and tooled with gold.