She looked divinely handsome in her ball-dress of a darkish shade of blue, relieved by a bunch of roses in her corsage and a single diamond brooch.

His dangling fingers moved little by little towards the opening of her corsage, they descended, and with his thumb and forefinger he gripped the paper.

Rosabella's white muslin dress was trailed all over with delicately tinted roses, and the lace around the corsage was fastened in front with a mosaic basket of flowers.

At ten o'clock he left the house, saying he would go himself to see Ramond; but he had another object in going outhe had seen at a show in Plassans a corsage of old point d'Alencon; a marvel of beauty which lay there awaiting some lover's generous folly, and the thought had come to him in the midst of the tortures of the night, to make a present of it to Clotilde, to adorn her wedding gown.

how beautiful I am going to look!" Radiant in her ecstatic gratitude, she drew close to him, still looking at the corsage, and compelling him to admire it with her.

It was from the woman who had sold him the beautiful corsage of old point d'Alencon, his first present to Clotilde.

Consoled now, and joyous, she told him of her escapadehow she had taken Martine into her confidence, and how both had gone to the dealer who had sold him the corsage of point d'Alencon, and how after interminable examining and bargaining the woman had given six thousand francs for all the jewels.

One whose individual endowments are as meagre as are those presented in No. 61 may improve her defects by adopting either style of corsage, shown in sketches Nos. 63 and 64.

The unsightly lines of the shoulders are covered, and just enough individual robustness is disclosed to suggest with becoming propriety the conventional décolleté corsage.

Those who do not approve of the décolleté style of dress, or whose ungraceful proportions might well be entirely concealed, can wear with appropriateness and benefit the corsage shown in No. 64.

[Illustration: NOS. 65 and 66] It is plain to be seen that the unattractive specimen of femininity, No. 65., with the long, wrinkled neck and sharply lined face is unbecomingly costumed in the V-shaped basque and corsage which apparently elongate her natural lankness.

This style of corsage is equally effective for a too thin or a too muscular neck.

A square-cut corsage is most becoming to the woman whose narrow shoulders have a consumptive droop.

[Illustration: NO. 67] As is obvious in No. 67, the stout woman apparently increases her breadth by wearing a flamboyant corsage, and she hides the most exquisite lines of her arm with her sleeves.

The modest lace flounce that falls in vertical folds decreases her formidable corsage.

Clad in an evening gown of simple white, to the close-fitting corsage of which she had fastened a bunch of pink roses, she was to Ellis a dazzling apparition.

Then she reached up and back, straining her arms to push the top snap of the corsage into place.

She fastened it in her corsage and led the way to a stone bench beneath an arbor at the end of the wall where she sat and motioned to the place beside her.

Narbonne est belle, dit le roi, Et je l'aurai; je n'ai jamais vu, sur ma foi, Ces belles filles-là sans leur rire au passage, Et me piquer un peu les doigts à leur corsage.

It must be very full and fluffy around the foot, and be looped up on the skirt and around the decollete corsage with festoons of small pink considerations.

It should be cut low in the corsage, and have no sleeves.

She could make two skirts to a dress, one shorter, the other longer; and she could cut out the upper one by any new paper pattern; and she could make shell-trimmings and flutings and box-plaitings and flouncings, and sew them on exquisitely, even now, with her old eyes; but she never had adapted herself to the modern ideas of the corsage.

Remember that the make of your corsage is of even greater importance than the make of your dress.

No dressmaker can fit you well, or make your bodices in the manner most becoming to your figure, if the corsage beneath be not of the best description.

# [Footnote 102: #effacées#, drawn back and down so as to set off the corsage.]