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Updated: May 24, 2025
I've seen stupid girls light up like a turnip with a candle inside, simply because some plain young man did the inevitable, and came up into the drawing-room after dinner; and I've seen clever women go to pieces like a linen button at the wash, simply because some ignorant man did the inevitable, and preferred a more foolish and better-looking woman to themselves."
She doesn't look so bad in it. Your Aunt Beulah presents a peculiar phenomenon these days. She's growing better-looking and behaving worse every day of her life." "Behaving worse?" "She's theory ridden and fad bitten. She'll come to a bad end if something doesn't stop her." "Do you mean stop her working for suffrage? I'm a suffragist, Uncle David."
"He's nothing like Richards," said the other. "He's a taller and better-looking man." "If he's nothing like Joe, what do you want to lick him for?" said the single-minded musician, with a surprise in his manner, which was mingled with something like rebuke.
You came in first, and I congratulate you as no living being can congratulate you who has not felt for a moment or two that it was barely possible that he might, in some period of existence, occupy the position which you now hold. "Do not be surprised if you hear of my early marriage. Some woman no better-looking than I am may seek me out.
After six months of our acquaintanceship had passed, M., an old schoolfellow of mine, took lodgings near me for the summer. She was a remarkable girl. If she was not beautiful, she was better-looking than I was, and she possessed a something, I know not what, more powerful than beauty to fascinate men. Perhaps it was her unconstrained naturalness.
Many a better scholar nor you, and better-looking man too, has been anged afore now, for all his schoolin'. "Says he, 'I'll soon set you up, Tom. Let me see if I can find anything here that will do for a turn-and-quit. "Close to where I lay there, was a furrin officer who had his head nearly amputated with a sabre cut.
"It's like going off guard I mean, rather, off duty to her, I think." He made the correction thoughtfully and with no haste. "Life has always seemed rather like an obligation to do things you don't want to not that she did them all and now she's tired, she's glad to leave it to me. Only she wishes I was a bit better-looking, though she won't admit it.
Why do you look at me like that? I very often go to church! We all have the same God. To an educated person externals matter less than the idea. . . . That's so, isn't it?" "Yes, of course . . ." smiled the lieutenant. "Yes, the idea. . . . But you are not a bit like your brother. You are handsome, too, but your brother is a great deal better-looking. There's wonderfully little likeness!"
Why do you want to people the minds of everybody that reads your good-for-nothing libel which you call a "biography" with your impudent caricatures of a man who was a better-looking fellow than yourself, I 'll bet you ten to one, a man whom his Latin tutor called fommosus puer when he was only a freshman?
If by chance she fell into an ambush, her feeling for Justin would give her strength and wit to escape; for all women who have a preference in their hearts can resist a man they hate." "It was about her that I came," said the countess, "and I little thought my visit could be so useful to you. That child, you know, can't remain thirteen; and she will probably grow better-looking."
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