Nosegays
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At the station of a big town the Volunteers were again greeted with songs and cheers; again women and men turned up with collecting-boxes, the provincial ladies presented
nosegays
and accompanied the Volunteers to the refreshment-bar; but all this was far feebler and weaker than in Moscow.
Mr. Weller's tops were newly cleaned, and his dress was arranged with peculiar care; the mottled-faced gentleman wore at his button-hole a full-sized dahlia with several leaves; and the coats of his two friends were adorned with
nosegays
of laurel and other evergreens.
All these many-hued dresses which covered the sandslike nosegays, these pretty stuffs, those showy parasols, the fictitiousgrace of tightened waists, all the ingenious devices of fashion fromthe smart little shoe to the extravagant hat, the seductive charm ofgesture, voice, and smile, all the coquettish airs in short displayedon this seashore, suddenly struck him as stupendous efflorescencesof female depravity.
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