She recited her little piece very well, though somewhat mechanically.

I think she really did much better than if she had had her desired curls.

The miserable conviction that her hair, alone among that glossy-tressed bevy, was looking badly, quite blotted out all nervousness and self-consciousness from her mind.

Her hair apart, she looked very pretty.

The prevailing excitement had made bright her eye and flushed her cheeks rosily--too rosily, perhaps.