Liveries
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CHAPTER XXIITHE BALL HAD ONLY JUST BEGUN when Kitty and her mother ascended the broad staircase which was deluged with light, decorated with flowering plants, and occupied by powdered footmen in red
liveries
.
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When he had changed the first hundred-rouble note to buy
liveries
for the footman and hall porter, he had involuntarily calculated that those useless
liveries
– which, however, were absolutely necessary, judging by the surprise of the old Princess and Kitty at his hint that one could do without
liveries
– would cost as much as the hire of two labourers for the summer months, that is, of one for about three hundred working days between Easter and Advent – and each a day of heavy labour from early morning till late in the evening.
She forgot the tune of the quadrilles; she no longer saw the
liveries
and appointments so distinctly; some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.
Signs by moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over yielded hands, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness could not be separated from the balconies of great castles full of indolence, from boudoirs with silken curtains and thick carpets, well-filled flower-stands, a bed on a raised dias, nor from the flashing of precious stones and the shoulder-knots of
liveries.
His horses, his uniforms, the
liveries
of his servants were kept up with a nicety which would have done credit to the punctiliousness of a great English nobleman.
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