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Besides, Mrs. Hilary is quite good-looking herself. The history of the affair is much as follows: I called on Mrs. Hilary to see whether I could do anything, and she told me all about it. It appears that Mrs. Dolly had told her that she would be in a certain place; and when Miss Phyllis came, Dolly was not there.
Indeed, to be quite confidential, it was the visitor who occupied the larger share of Cleer's attention. He was so good-looking and so nice. His open face and pink and white complexion had attracted her fancy from the very first; and the more she saw of him the more she liked him. They met often quite by accident, of course on the moor and elsewhere.
The half-French, half-Italian Vetturino, who undertook, with his little rattling carriage and pair, to convey us thither in three days, was a careless, good-looking fellow, whose light-heartedness and singing propensities knew no bounds as long as we went on smoothly.
He had become to her almost a stranger. He seemed to her a man like others better than most others good-looking, estimable, and who did not displease her; but he did not preoccupy her. Suddenly he had gone out of her life. She could not remember how he had become mingled with it. The idea of belonging to him shocked her.
Effie Bauer's reason for not marrying when a girl was the same as that of most of the capable, wise-eyed, good-looking women one finds at the head of departments. She had not had a chance. If Effie had been as attractive at twenty as she was at there, we won't betray confidences. Effie had improved with the years, and ripened with experience. She knew her value.
She was genuinely surprised when she found him to be a rather good-looking young man in irreproachable evening clothes. At that moment dinner was announced. He offered his arm without hesitation. Clyde intercepted a glance from her hostess, brimming with laughter. She laughed back with relief.
He stated the fact politely, but with decision. "And frankly, I hate hearing a girl pulled to pieces, just because she's charming and good-looking and " "Oh, my dear boy," she interrupted unfailingly sweet solicitude in her lifted gaze. "Did I trample on your chivalrous toes? Or is it ?" "No, it isn't." He resented the barefaced implication. "Naturally I admire her " "Oh, naturally!
He was a good-looking young man, this steward, and the fact that he complained told plainly that there was something between the men that was doing away with discipline. The steward's name was Dalton, and he was a fair specimen of the London cockney. Stout and strong, he was as ignorant as an animal and about as easily persuaded into doing things as an obstinate mule.
He put me to sit in an arm-chair, threw off his overcoat, lit a cigarette, as well as he could for the spurts and gusts of his laughter, and then, standing back to the fire-place, with one hand in his pocket and his coat-tail over his arm, he told me the cause of his merriment. "I don't mind telling you that was Lena," he said. "The good-looking girl in the scarlet dress and the big diamonds.
In appearance he was not, it must be admitted, an ideal Squire, for he was but a trifle above middle height, rather slight, and with the little stoop that tells of the man who is town-bred and by nature more given to indoor than outdoor exercises; but he was a good-looking fellow for all that, with a bright humorous face, though at this moment rather a bored one, large eyes set well apart, and his proper allowance of brown hair and white teeth.
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