He is the new Methodist minister's son and very nice and clever, and would be quite handsome if it were not for his nose.

It is a really dreadful nose.
When he talks of commonplace things it does not matter so much, but when he talks of poetry and ideals the contrast between his nose and his conversation is too much for me and I want to shriek with laughter.
It is really not fair, because everything he said was perfectly charming and if somebody like Kenneth had said it I would have been enraptured.

When I listened to him with my eyes cast down I was quite fascinated; but as soon as I looked up and saw his nose the spell was broken.

He wants to enlist, too, but can't because he is only seventeen.

Mrs.Elliott met us as we were walking through the village and could not have looked more horrified if she caught me walking with the Kaiser himself.