"The parlour was bright with sunlight that shone on the red throw rugs and stuffed chairs. A low fire in the fireplace crackled and warmed the room and several framed daguerreotypes and tintypes dotted the mantle. One tintype showed a man in a pith helmet, sitting astride a camel before an Egyptian pyramid. In the family portrait by the tintype, the same man stood with a woman, a dark-haired girl, and smaller blond boy. Next to the portrait was another of a proud, blond man. But farther behind it lay a silver-framed daguerreotype of a dark-haired gentleman with pencil moustache and heavy-lidded eyes. It stood behind a terracotta Egyptian sphinx and a sandstone statuette of Bastet. And lying between Bastet and a mantle clock covered in red velvet was a framed cabinet card. In the photograph, a beautiful, tall blonde woman in a light-coloured dress brightly smiled. Her breast was pinned with a cascade of flowers. She stood arm in arm with a smaller dark-haired woman in dour black whose eyes were darkened with kohl and who wore a similar corsage on her chest. Head slightly tilted, she gazed at the camera sceptically. The card’s bottom border bore, along with the photography studio’s name imprinted in gold, the inscribed words: MARRIED 22nd of June, 1878." ~from SUNDARK: An Elle Black Penny Dread
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 06:38:58 +0000
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