[The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer Lytton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Coming Race CHAPTER XXV 6/26
Sometimes I suspect that she does not court me because she fears I would ask some unreasonable settlement as to the surrender of her rights.
But if so, she cannot really love me, for where a Gy really loves she forgoes all rights." "Is this young Gy present ?" "Oh yes.
She sits yonder talking to my mother." I looked in the direction to which my eyes were thus guided, and saw a Gy dressed in robes of bright red, which among this people is a sign that a Gy as yet prefers a single state.
She wears gray, a neutral tint, to indicate that she is looking about for a spouse; dark purple if she wishes to intimate that she has made a choice; purple and orange when she is betrothed or married; light blue when she is divorced or a widow, and would marry again.
Light blue is of course seldom seen. Among a people where all are of so high a type of beauty, it is difficult to single out one as peculiarly handsome.
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