And laids , 106 indeed, they were; being a set of four, denominated in the catalogue La vie d’une femme . 107 They were painted rather in a remarkable style⁠—flat, dead, pale, and formal. The first represented a Jeune Fille , 108 coming out of a church-door, a missal in her hand, her dress very prim, her eyes cast down, her mouth pursed up⁠—the image of a most villainous little precocious she-hypocrite. The second, a Mariée , 109