This employment I considered as the only satisfaction I could offer to the memory of your unfortunate mother, and I flatter myself that if she could look down, it would give her angelic mind pleasure even in paradise, to behold me instilling into the minds of her children, sentiments congenial with her own.

Carefully unfolding it, he spread it on the floor. It proved to be a curtain or portière, beautifully stencilled with a design on roses. Penguin 2006, p. 240

The idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes of individuals.

To my great amusement, the dog kept on chasing its tail and yelped when it bit it.