Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfect woman nobly planned...
Then comes a faded rose, a Jacqueminot, and the disease takes this phase: "This rose I had from Kate. She was the most grandly beautiful woman I ever saw; we met at Baltimore, during that Southern trip I took last spring, when the Faculty thought best, - you remember. I never appreciated Byron till I saw her. No cold hard outlines, but the rounded form of a Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere...
...forehead was high and exquisitely moulded, her mouth and chin large and round, and her eyes full, restless, and glowing. A rich clear color trembled through the brown of a cheek that had been tanned by exposure to sun and wind. She had the most beautiful hair that any woman has worn since Helen. It was a soft dark brown, rich, thick, and tremulous...
...came to know her better, I found a peculiar charm in her which I never saw in other women, whom contact with the social world makes selfish. Here was a woman who, during the twenty years of her life, had met with no more than a score of human beings. Yet she possessed the germ of those pure inborn gifts which cultivation can mock, but never equal. She could analyze the beauty of forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers...
...that of woman ! "Wherefore came you here...