nadiea: anne of green gables aesthetics: ruby gillis Ruby had always been beautiful; but her
nadiea: anne of green gables aesthetics: ruby gillis Ruby had always been beautiful; but her beauty had been of the earth, earthy; it had had a certain insolent quality in it, as if it flaunted itself in the beholder’s eye; spirit had never shone through it, intellect had never refined it. But death had touched it and consecrated it, bringing out delicate modelings and purity of outline never seen before – doing what life and love and great sorrow and deep womanhood joys might have done for Ruby. Anne, looking down through a mist of tears, at her old playfellow, thought she saw the face God had meant Ruby to have, and remembered it so always. (Anne of the Island, chapter fourteen) -- source link
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