Love Finds You in New Orleans, LA by Christa Allan

Author:Christa Allan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781609365943
Publisher: Summerside Press
Published: 2012-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

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Agnes carried Madame Olympe’s creation into Lottie’s room and transferred it to her bed as if the tulle was of thin sheets of glass instead of fabric.

“The dress weigh more than you. Guess they don’t plan on you moving much.” Agnes eyed the dress the way she eyed Henri when she’d find him lounging on one of the upholstered chairs in Lottie’s bedroom.

“Maybe Grand-mère had Madame sew weights into the skirt. She knows how awfully excited I am about this soirée, and she feared I would float way.” Lottie leaned against one of the bedposts, since she had already been too corseted to attempt sitting. She placed her hands around the waist of the black satin corset, and her fingertips almost met. “Agnes, this is unbearable, and the party is over an hour away.”

“You wearing six petticoats, Miz Lottie, ’fore we even get you in that dress. Dey so stiff, your grandmother said your waist hafta be at seventeen inches.”

“I should have dressed downstairs in the exact spot we will greet guests. Then I wouldn’t need to move.” Except for when she possibly fainted from lack of food or breath.

“Les’ just get it over with,” said Agnes, carrying the petticoats to Lottie.

Somehow they avoided disturbing the complicated hairdressing Lottie had sat still for that morning while the stylist twisted her hair into a pattern of braids and curls before finishing it off with a pair of diamond combs. While Agnes fastened the dozens of hooks and eyes from halfway between Lottie’s shoulder blades to the end of her hips, Lottie held on to the bedpost, already feeling the weight of the gown.

The Lottie encased in this dress bore no resemblance to the sultry young woman in cranberry-red who’d attended the opera. Her face and neck had been lightened and softened with pure pearl powder, and her lips shimmered as if covered with the juice of strawberries.

Her grandmother and Madame Olympe had achieved their objective. Lottie could have stepped out of a castle, a princess down to her satin slippers. But though she may have looked like a princess, she felt a tower surrounding her everywhere she went.

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