Celie made much clearer impressions in the mould than the man.

Yet on the floor of the carriage there is no trace of her shoes.

Again I say there is something here which I do not understand." And he spread out his hands with an impulsive gesture of despair.
"It looks as if they had been careful and he careless," said Mr.
Ricardo, with the air of a man solving a very difficult problem.
"What a mind!" cried Hanaud, now clasping his hands together in admiration.

"How quick and how profound!" There was at times something elephantinely elfish in M.Hanaud's demeanour, which left Mr.Ricardo at a loss.

But he had come to notice that these undignified manifestations usually took place when Hanaud had reached a definite opinion upon some point which had perplexed him.
"Yet there is perhaps, another explanation," Hanaud continued.