Dressed as she was and looking as she did, so beautiful and yet so motionless, with the pure brilliancy of her white dress brought out and strengthened by the colour beneath it, with that lovely head, and those large, bold, bright, staring eyes, it was impossible that either man or woman should do other than look at her.
Neither man nor woman for some minutes did do other.
Her bearers too were worthy of note.

The three servants were Italian, and though perhaps not peculiar in their own country, were very much so in the palace at Barchester.

The man especially attracted notice and created a doubt in the mind of some whether he were a friend or a domestic.

The same doubt was felt as to Ethelbert.

The man was attired in a loose-fitting, common, black-cloth morning-coat.