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When the Sleeper Wakes-Part27_H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite. The



pigtail was in evidence; it would seem that citizens of

Chinese extraction were no longer ashamed of their



race. There was little uniformity of fashion apparent

in the forms of clothing worn. The more shapely



men displayed their symmetry in trunk hose, and

here were puffs and slashes, and there a cloak



and there a robe. The fashions of the days of

Leo the Tenth were perhaps the prevailing influence,



but the aesthetic conceptions of the far east

were also patent. Masculine embonpoint, which,



in Victorian times, would have been subjected to the

tightly buttoned perils, the ruthlessexaggeration of



tight-legged tight-armed evening dress, now formed

but the basis of a wealth of dignity and drooping folds.



Graceful slenderness abounded' also. To Graham, a

typically stiff man from a typically stiff period, not only



did these men seem altogether too graceful in person,

but altogether too expressive in their vividly



expressive faces. They gesticulated, they expressed surprise,

interest, amusement, above all, they expressed the



emotions excited in their minds by the ladies about

them with astonishingfrankness. Even at the first



glance it was evident that women were in a great

majority.



The ladies in the company of these gentlemen displayed

in dress, bearing and manner alike, less



emphasis and more intricacy. Some affected a classical

simplicity of robing and subtlety of fold, after the



fashion of the First French Empire, and flashed

conquering arms and shoulders as Graham passed.



Others had closely-fitting dresses without seam or belt

at the waist, sometimes with long folds falling from the



shoulders. The delightful confidences of evening

dress had not been diminished by the passage of two



centuries.

Everyone's movements seemed graceful. Graham



remarked to Lincoln that he saw men as Raphael's

cartoons walking, and Lincoln told him that the



attainment of an appropriate set of gestures was part of

every rich person's education. The Master's entry was



greeted with a sort of tittering applause, but these

people showed their distinguished manners by not



crowding upon him nor annoying him by any persistent

scrutiny, as he descended the steps towards the floor of



the aisle.

He had already learnt from Lincoln that these were



the leaders of existing London society; almost every

person there that night was either a powerful official



or the immediate connexion of a powerful official.

Many had returned from the European Pleasure Cities



expressly to welcome him. The aeronautic authorities,

whose defection had played a part in the overthrow



of the Council only second to Graham's were

very prominent, and so, too, was the Wind Vane Control.



Amongst others there were several of the more

prominent officers of the Food Trust; the controller of



the European Piggeries had a particularly melancholy

and interesting countenance and a daintily cynical



manner. A bishop in full canonicals passed athwart

Graham's vision, conversing with a gentleman dressed



exactly like the traditional Chaucer, including even the

laurel wreath.






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