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She had hoped for a nice, well-to-do couple, with at least one grown-up son preferably connected, in some way, with the stage. Dolly Tosswill, still standing, looked down at her audience. "She's quite unlike what I thought she would be," she began. "For one thing, she's quite young, and she's awfully pretty and unusual-looking. You'd notice her anywhere."
He made a reverence and then drew near to the altar. All the furniture of the church was most simple and old; but over the altar there was a long unusual-looking shelf; he went up to it, and stood for awhile gazing upon it. Along the shelf lay a rude and ancient sword of a simple design, in a painted scabbard of wood; and over it was a board with a legend painted on it.
Lulu has explained to you that I am lame and never walk, so you won't think it strange that I do not show you the way. She will be here in a moment. She ran upstairs to fetch the baby." The girls went into the bed-room. It was a pretty and unusual-looking apartment.
He made a reverence and then drew near to the altar. All the furniture of the church was most simple and old; but over the altar there was a long unusual-looking shelf; he went up to it, and stood for awhile gazing upon it. Along the shelf lay a rude and ancient sword of a simple design, in a painted scabbard of wood; and over it was a board with a legend painted on it.
It had not, during the years which certainly had given time for change, altered in the least. The station master had grown stouter and more rosy, and came forward with his respectful, hospitable air, to attend to the unusual-looking young lady, who was the only first-class passenger.
A teacher in a Sunday-school in the Five Points district of New York, at that time one of the worst parts of the city, has told how, one morning, a tall, thin, unusual-looking man entered and sat quietly listening to the exercises. His face showed such genuine interest that he was asked if he would like to speak to the children.
Polly felt dreadfully shy with such unusual-looking girls. Not that their hats had feathers or fine flowers, nor their suits had any expensive trimmings on them, to suggest wealth, but the way they looked in their clothes! What made the difference, she wondered. Had Anne told her the actual cost of those hats and suits, poor Polly would have fainted from shock.
Ever since he had taken his seat in the House he had dined with her alone every Friday evening. It was their undisturbed hour of intimacy and gladness in the busy week. Otherwise they rarely met, for Paul was a pariah in her social world. On the Friday in question his taxi drew up before an unusual-looking house in Berkeley Square.
"It's false," said Billy, at once. Bertie did not grasp his thought. "Her hair," said Billy. And certainly it was an unusual-looking arrangement. Presently, as they sat near a parlor organ in the presence of earnest family portraits, Bertie made a new poem for Billy, "Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato? And Billy responded,
Down the hall they went, then up a flight of wooden stairs which carried them to a covered bridge, and so to the upper story of the factory. "That's an unusual-looking girl." Old Andrew MacPherson made the comment as he received the papers from Stoddard's hands. "The one I was speaking to in the hall?" inquired Stoddard rather unnecessarily. "Yes; she seems to have an unusual mind as well.
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