I mean in person--tall, and with that sort of look--and not very talkative." "Quite wrong, my dear aunt; there is no likeness at all." "Very odd! but one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand.
One takes up a notion, and runs away with it.

Mr.Dixon, you say, is not, strictly speaking, handsome ?" "Handsome! Oh! no--far from it--certainly plain.

I told you he was plain." "My dear, you said that Miss Campbell would not allow him to be plain, and that you yourself--" "Oh! as for me, my judgment is worth nothing.

Where I have a regard, I always think a person well-looking.

But I gave what I believed the general opinion, when I called him plain." "Well, my dear Jane, I believe we must be running away.