But the thought was not guilty of drawing comparisons.

'This is one that I could trust, as captain or mate,' he pressed the hand again before dropping it.
'You judge entirely by the surface, if you take me for a shifty person at the trial,' said Lady Grace.
Skepsey entered the room with one of his packets, and she was reminded of trains and husbands.
She left Victor uncomfortably rufed: and how?
for she had none of the physical charms appealing peculiarly to the man who was taken with grandeur of shape.

She belonged rather to the description physically distasteful to him.
It is a critical comment on a civilization carelessly distilled from the jealous East, when visits of fair women to City offices can have this effect.

If the sexes are separated for an hour, the place where one is excluded or not common to see, becomes inflammable to that appearing spark.

He does outrage to a bona Dea: she to the monasticism of the Court of Law: and he and she awaken unhallowed emotions.