It must be admitted, too, that the airy ringlety style of coiffure, which is one of the distinctive marks of this painter, was only becoming, even in the young, to the most evanescent species of beauty.

He has an eye for talent.

It would be in character if, unable to contain her suffering alone, she had vented her gall on her own husband.

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"