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    90 MADAME HEMUETTE BBOWN.

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    mental vision as clearly and vividly as though already upon the canvas"When the new icture has thus become _distinctlvisible in

    . p y all ceeds its t details o paint to it , the without artist ' even s min a , croquis she pu to ts assist on her her glove in her s , and work pro . -

    t The Her such Sisters scrupulous a poin of t , that Charity and , w literal hen " by she fidelity the had aid to composed of fact the is pushed her mental great process by p this icture lady jus o t f

    referred to , she would not commence its execution until she had succeeded in procuring a lete suit of the peculiar dress worn

    comp b "by the have members been of that tent Order to t . rust Any to other than for herself the de would tails pro of a - memory

    costume y whose component parts are so familiar to every resident of Paris starched ; the an quaint d broug poke ht in -b to onnet shape of snowy the aid linen of , such so miraculousl wonderfull y y

    inserted , pins , with its white flaps standing y out like sheltering penthouses above the shoulders of the dark grey figures , whose serge

    every gowns direc are tion to be , throug seen g h liding the streets at every of Paris hour ; with of the their day long , and open i to n

    sleeves , their heavy flat folds that fall so straight and so obedient the the primitive white collar crease the impressed on and them crucifix by their an maker d the , kindl relieved an by d y

    , rosary , generally pleasing faces of their excellent and devoted wearers . But Madame Henriette Brown never trusts to memory .

    Nevert of heless their , as garb the , good and have u Sisters all an " are invincible not at liber repugnanc ty to lend e to sitting y portio for n

    their " the portrait Christian —which humility they and regard abnega as tion a " vain they act profess , and — con her trary efforts to

    t I n p rocure z d ealous er to th l overcome e seco articles nded th s h i h er e difficul needed endeavors ty w , t he to ar f persuade or tis a t and g various time a lad unsuccessful y-friend " Sisters who 7 ' .

    to sit , and , f y ailing in that attempt , to procure from some of them the loan of a costume , obtained the address of the house which

    furnishes firm the peculiar however the ap parel t eria h o l f h th emp protestin e loyed entire for Order his this desire , purpose and wh " to ic . h be The al agreeable on head e possesses of " the to

    the fair , applican , ts oug , not only refused g to lend or sell them a suit of the fifty required thousand costume francs , but for assured a them inch that of " the should serge they worn offer by him the

    Sisterhoodhe could not let them square have it ! " Still persi , sting in her determination to paint the icture which she

    had already composed in her own mind , and bent p upon procuring the costume destined to fiin this workMadame Henriette

    Brown now procured letters gure of recommendation , to the Superior of the Order , as well as to several of its principal officers in Paris ; but

    even with the aid of these recommendations , it was not until upwards of in a vain year , that had she been was spent at in leng efforts th permitted which seemed to have destined the use to — be -at made her

    own house , for a few days only— -of the complete costume of a

    90 Madame Hemuette Bbown.

    90 MADAME HEMUETTE BBOWN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/18/