"Subtleties of feminine refinement"

(photo by Toshi Otsuki from the July 2000 issue of Victoria --
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"He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this quiet taste in dress, these relaxed, dovelike postures. He marveled at the sublimity of her soul and at the lace on her petticoat."

--Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (translated by Francis Steegmuller), originally published in 1857