I am charmed, Gabriella, to see that you have the firmness to resist, as well as the sensibility to feel.

I am delighted, too, to see you in the only livery youth and innocence should wear in a festal scene like this.

I abhor the gaudy tinselry which loads the devotees of fashion, indicative of false tastes and false principles; but white and pearls remind me of every thing pure and holy in nature.

In the Bible we read of the white robes of angels and saints.

Who ever dreamed of clothing them, in imagination, in dark or party-colored garments?
In mythology, the graces, the nymphs, and the muses are represented in snowy garments.