It appealed to her more than buying coloured air-balls, or screaming because the duchess wore a mushroom hat.
"Then are plain people to be denied their share of goodness, Dal ?" she asked.
"Plainness is not ugliness," replied Garth Dalmain simply.

"I learned that when quite a small boy.

My mother took me to hear a famous preacher.

As he sat on the platform during the preliminaries he seemed to me quite the ugliest man I had ever seen.

He reminded me of a grotesque gorilla, and I dreaded the moment when he should rise up and face us and give out a text.