Lady Kitty was robed in the extreme of French fashion, which at that moment was a fashion of flounces; she was much décolletée; and her fair, abundant hair, carried to a great height, and arranged with a certain calculated wildness around her small face, was surmounted by a large scarlet butterfly which shone defiantly against the dark background of books.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.