To a man under such circumstances, taking a wife is something more than a question of adornment, however highly he may rate this; and Lydgate was disposed to give it the first place among wifely functions.
Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality.
In the porch she found a crowd of little girls, all more or less gaily attired in whites and blues and pinks, and all staring with curious eyes at this stranger in their midst, with her extraordinary head adornment.
And then the romping Edith May dancing up with sisterly jealousy to add her rosebud to the adornment?
But she, trembling in every limb, did not think of the adornment.
It looks as if Genius had followed the caprices of a child, in the adornment of these singular temples.
