 | Pierre Loti - 1905 - 396 pages
...the caller a seat, and to exchange with him some polite remarks. Nevertheless, neither the mousmes nor the old ladies gain anything by appearing in this...completely disappeared in company with her costume. There is yet another hour, at once joyous and melancholy, a little later, when twilight falls, when... | |
 | J. L. Wisenthal, Sherrill E. Grace, Melinda Boyd - Music - 2006 - 281 pages
...with Loti's unadorned racist and misogynous comments: 'A Japanese woman, deprived of her long dress and her huge sash with its pretentious bows, is nothing...unshapely bust; she has no longer a remnant of her artificial little charms, which have completely disappeared in company with her costume' (216). With... | |
 | Michael Wintle - History - 2006 - 283 pages
...reduces Chrysanthemum to nothing more than her costume: A Japanese woman, deprived of her long dress and her huge sash with its pretentious bows, is nothing...unshapely bust; she has no longer a remnant of her artificial little charms which have completely disappeared in company with her costume (216). In this... | |
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In this situation visitors are received; and the bather, without any hesitation, leaves his tub, holding in his hand his little towel (invariably blue), to offer the caller a seat, and to exchange with him some polite remarks. Nevertheless, neither the... 