Nor, indeed, for the ballroom.

It leaps to one's eyes that dancing would be difficult.

Nor is it intended for much conversation.

It is a costume for a mood of quiet reflection.
But I assure mademoiselle that for pretty young ladies who are the favourites of rich old women it is the style most recommended by the criminal classes." All the woman's bitter rancour against Celia, hidden for months beneath a mask of humility, burst out and ran riot now.

She went to Adele Rossignol's help, and they flung the girl face downwards upon the sofa.
Her face struck the cushion at one end, her feet the cushion at the other.