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After an exhibition of gold-encrusted litters and painted coaches of State, used in royal processions, the Prince, a clever-looking man of forty, takes wine with his guests. Each stand of solid silver contains six bottles, the crouching attendants also carrying silver trays of tumblers and wine-glasses, a gaily clad servitor with a huge silver ice-bowl bringing up the rear.
'All I ever saw was, that the stupid-looking ones were the greatest blackguards, and the clever-looking ones the greatest rogues. Lancelot was rebuked, but not surprised.
But before she went to sleep her mind, in spite of her, had imaged for her again the interesting, clever-looking face of the stranger under the roof, with his clear, straightforward glance that seemed to see so much, his smile which disclosed splendid teeth, his strongly moulded chin.
Everything seemed to go on oiled wheels at Wyndfell Hall. But this might be owing to clever Miss Farrow, for Varick had told him that Miss Farrow was acting as hostess to the party. Panton didn't much like that composed, clever-looking lady. She made him feel a little shy, a little young a sensation he didn't very often experience nowadays!
A clever-looking priest was directing the drama, and one juvenile Thespis was denouncing tyrants and dying for his country in hexameters of a shrill treble. His friends were applauding more than was necessary or kind, and flourishing their wooden swords with much ferocity of action.
Harz sent in his card, and asked to see "der Herr." The servant, a grey-eyed, clever-looking Swiss with no hair on his face, came back saying: "Der Herr, mein Herr, is in the Garden gone." Harz followed him. Herr Paul, a small white flannel cap on his head, gloves on his hands, and glasses on his nose, was watering a rosebush, and humming the serenade from Faust.
She glanced up to see Eliot gazing straight ahead, apparently supremely oblivious of that slender, gracious figure in front, moving lightly betwixt Robin and the stooping, rather clever-looking doctor.
Mark Forwood, a clever-looking young man with kind eyes and intelligent features, looked at Robin sympathetically. "I am quite sure," he said, "that Mr. Clifford will take as much pride in the fine old place as his uncle did but is there not Miss Jocelyn? the daughter will probably inherit the farm, will she not, as nearest of kin?" Mr.
Our two ladies, however, who were pretty, clever-looking, and attractive even after the night's journey, were manifestly more impressed with the villainy of the French officials than they were with the kindness of their English neighbours. "And nothing can be done to punish them?" said the younger of them to Mr. Glascock. "Nothing, I should think," said he. "Nothing will, at any rate."
'There's a Miss Denham, niece of a doctor, a Dr . . . . Shot Shrapnel! a wonderfully good-looking, clever-looking girl, comes across him in half- a-dozen streets to ask how he's getting on, and goes every night to his meetings, with a man who 's a writer and has a mad wife; a man named Lydia-no, that's a woman Lydiard.
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