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She was very plain-featured, but the men the rough teamsters, for instance could not keep their eyes off her. She was the most amazing mixture of boldness and timidity I had ever met. We were about to plump ourselves down at table, for instance, when Miss Buchanan, folding her hands and raising her eyes, said grace; but to our first questions she replied, blushing, in timid monosyllables.
The young lady, whom I thought I had insulted, had made such a deep impression upon me that the seven following days seemed very long; yet I was impatient to see her again only that I might entreat her forgiveness, and convince her of my repentance. The following day the count was visited by his son; he was plain-featured, but a thorough gentleman, and modest withal.
His eyes held hers, by turns they seemed to become beseeching and imperious. Catherine Nagle suddenly threw out her hands with a piteous gesture. "Ah! James," she said, "I cannot trust my own " And as she thus made surrender of her two most cherished possessions, her pride and her womanly reticence, Mottram's face the plain-featured face so exquisitely dear to her became transfigured.
Why did I, indeed, want to see Carpenter Nikolai, the artisan? Yet I have visited him and made his acquaintance. He is a bull in stature, strong and plain-featured, a man of few words. Last Saturday we saw the town together; why, I don't know, but I suggested it myself. I made friends with the carpenter for my own sake, because of my loneliness.
A great painter was sent to bring her picture, and made her very beautiful in it; but when she arrived, she proved to be not only plain-featured but large and clumsy, and the king could not bear the sight of her, and said they had sent him a great Flanders mare by way of queen.
Of her own child she felt she could not speak to this unconsciously bereaved mother. "And six years old? Ah! Now I must show you what my dear boy was like at six." She got up, and fetched from the mantelpiece a photograph of a tiny boy in a sailor's dress; a plain-featured, ordinary-looking little boy, with dark eyes too solemn for his age. "Now, is your boy as big, do you think?
On another occasion he might have looked at the nursemaids, but this day the prettiest is plain-featured; they are but the ordinary bread of existence; to-day he is going to partake of more extraordinary fare.
"As you know, I stayed, when in England, with Sophy Pargeter " Again she looked up at him, as if hesitating what she should say. "Sophy Pargeter?" he repeated the name mechanically, but with a sudden wincing. Vanderlyn had always disliked, with a rather absurd, unreasoning dislike, Peggy's plain-featured, rough-tongued sister-in-law.
"There is a lucky young fellow!" said an attorney's clerk, named Petit-Claud, a plain-featured youth who had been at school with Lucien, and treated him with small, patronizing airs. "Yes, he certainly is," answered one of the young men who had been present on the occasion of the reading; "he is a good-looking fellow, he has some brains, and Mme. de Bargeton is quite wild about him."
In those days I must have been or so it strikes me, looking back a sort of plain-featured Diana; 'chaste huntress' isn't that what they called her? At any rate, the story shocked, even sickened, me a little at the time. . . . It appears that the night before making Plymouth Sound he made a bet in the wardroom a bet of fifty pounds that he'd marry the first woman he met ashore.
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