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He was a peculiar man of middle height, with a shock of dark, tough, woolly hair, well formed and not bad-looking, with a robust general physique, as if his ancestors had been meat eaters. His forehead was narrow and sloped backward; the cheekbones were prominent; nose hooked, broad and wide, with strong nostrils; mouth large, with thick lips, and not very prominent chin.
Ida rose from the bumpy sofa and saw a thin, harassed-looking woman, more faded even than the portrait, and a tall and rather a good-looking girl whose face and figure resembled, in a vague, indefinite way, those of both her father and mother; but though she was not bad-looking, there was a touch of vulgarity in her widely opened eyes, with a curious stare for the newcomer, and in her rather coarse mouth, which appalled and repelled poor Ida; and she stood looking from one to the other, trying to keep her surprise and wonder and disapproval from revealing themselves through her eyes.
Looking at her, he simply thought, 'Well, that young lady doesn't play badly, and she's not bad-looking either.
Smiles began to flicker over her features; and when she next looked in the glass she murmured to her reflection, "I say, you ain't so bad-looking after all!" A knock on the door roused her. Mrs. Rowles came in. The good aunt sat down on the foot of the bed and drew the girl towards her, putting her motherly arm round the little figure, and smoothing the ruffled hair. Mrs.
"Now look here, Uncle Simon," said his master, "I want you to tell me how you, an old, bad-looking, half-dead darky won that likely young girl." The old man closed one eye and smiled. "Mastah, I don' b'lieve you looks erroun' you," he said.
What is the son like? I have only seen him once or twice. Does he take after his father?" "He's about twice as tall, and several times as wide in some respects, I should say, certainly in the matter of the enjoyment of life. He's not bad-looking in a kind of a way, you know, that is, for those who like that kind of looks, a trifle fleshy perhaps.
Hudson, where did you fling that confounded bucket? Get up and straighten yourself, and go after Miss Kenyon. Take her anywhere away from Miss Lorimer, and, if you feel like it, make love to her. You're not bad-looking when you wash yourself, and I think she has a fancy for you." "Not much!" said Hudson grinning as he refilled his pipe.
Their meeting was now impossible, so he must fasten this explanation, along with his full report, under Caesar's collar and let the dog be messenger, as had been arranged. "I am sending this by Caesar," he wrote, "because I am watched. The man following me is a bad-looking brute with dirty gray beard and no mustache.
"She sees that we are talking about her and feels a little self-consciousness. The Americans are not so self-possessed as we are." "Why do you not marry her?" she continued, not heeding him. "She has money, is not at all bad-looking. There is nothing else for you to do, and you cannot long go on as you are now, I fancy." Geoffrey grew red and confused. He tried to make a clever answer.
He divined at once whose work it was, and he felt that it was wonderful. It must be acknowledged, too, that he was greatly pleased with Colin's conception of himself. "I'm no a bad-looking Crawford," he thought complacently; "the lad has had a vera clear notion o' what he was doing." Personal flattery is very subtle and agreeable. Colin rose in his father's opinion that hour.
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