A BEAUTIFUL HAND.
A beautiful band is an excellent thing in a woman ; it is a charm that never fails, and, better than all, it is a means of fascination that never disappears. Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished or ceased to enchant. The expression of the hand, too, is inexhaustible ; and when the eyes we may have worshipped no longer flash or sparkle, the ringlets with which we may have played are covered with a cap, or worse, and the symmetrical presence which in our sonnets has reminded us so oft of antelopes and wild gazelles, have all, all vanished, the hand, immortal hand, defying alike time and care, still vanquishes and still triumphs ; and small, soft and fair, by an airy attitude, a gentle pressure or a new ring, renews with untiring grace the spell that bound our enamoured and adoring youth.—Disraeli.
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Patea Mail, 21 March 1882, Page 3
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156A BEAUTIFUL HAND. Patea Mail, 21 March 1882, Page 3
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