exceptions-tell

Updated: May 27, 2025

We analyze her bonnet, her dress, her features, her figure. If not, he monopolizes all attention. In five minutes we can, any of us-there are a few rare exceptions-tell you the cut of his coat, the character of his cravat, the shape of his collar, the way he wears his hair. If he has any peculiar pulpit habit, woe betide him; he is odd.

Lyman Abbott - Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish.