Her reception of her brother was most affectionate—there are times when the most artificial, by habit, become natural; when the early memories of the heart, for a short time at least, spring up as a fountain of living waters, overflowing the selfish vanities and conventional incrustations which the world has planted—giving honest smiles to the countenance; artless, yet loving words to the tongue; and the gratified heart seems restored to a new childhood.

A Custum' Us officer knows what to do with his Buttons, said the Jack , repeating the obnoxious word with the greatest contempt , “when they comes betwixt him and his own light[…]

She was not exactly a beauty, Emma said of Julia, mentioning that one of Julia's eyes would go out of focus in a cross-eyed condition known as strabismus, “but she was possessed of a lively and pleasing countenance.” There was more to Julia than that: high-hearted, charming, generous, and very intelligent, she was invariably at the center of every social gathering, the favorite of girls and young men alike.

Of course, there are more informal ways to get and maintain dreadlocks than to book a more or less professional loctician.