Technically she was showing everyone in the hallway her hoo hoo. This is not so mortifying to me as it is to the brand new nursing students, many of them who are male.

I cannot, said she, internally, "see that it makes any difference to him which of my daughters he takes, if, as he says, it is my admirable mode of bringing them up which has put matrimony into his head, for it is certain I have brought them up impartially...

Lightly he started up out of that stound.

The inelegance of the ugly duckling stood in contrast to its ultimate life as a swan.