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SHAPELY, buxom, well-rounded, matronly, generously proportioned, a fine figure of a woman. Such words and phrases have been used at various times to describe those ladies who combine a certain dignity of bearing and grace of movement with an undoubted solidity of build. Ladies who delighted the artists of a bygone age as much as they amuse the slimming sisterhood of to-day.
Mrs. Constance Warwick deserved some, at any rate, of the old-fashioned adjectives. She was big in every way, but not clumsy. She appeared pleasant and good-natured and, as Simon Ross looked at her, he thought she was just the type of woman to appeal to the middle-aged man desiring comfort with moderate indulgence. Voluptuous is another term for something of the sort, but it conveys a suggestion of sinfulness that did not seem quite suitable in this particular case.