He had the feverish eye of a man whose subsistence depends upon speculative acuteness and restless calculation.

No doubt he was still so far the old Paul, that, whatever he undertook, he threw himself into it with surpassing vigour.
Mrs.Enderby was in her thirty-eighth year, and still handsome.

Most men, at all events, would have called her so, for most men are attracted by a face which is long, delicate, characterless, and preserves late the self-conscious expression of a rather frivolous girl of seventeen.

She had ideals of her own, which she pursued regardless of the course in which they led her; and these ideals were far from ignoble.

To beauty of all kinds she was passionately sensitive.