[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER XXII 12/50
Can any men so fearfully bold in appearance ever turn their backs and fly? They look as though they could destroy by the glance of their ferocious eyes.
Who could withstand the hirsute horrors of those fiery faces? "There is just such audacity, a courage of a similar description, perhaps we may say an equal invincibility, in the charms of those Tom and Jerry hats when duly put on, over a face of the proper description--over such a face as that of the Lady Crinoline.
They give to the wearer an appearance of concentration of pluck.
But as the Eastern array does quail before the quiet valour of Europe, so, we may perhaps say, does the open, quick audacity of the Tom and Jerry tend to less powerful results than the modest enduring patience of the bonnet." 'So ends the second chapter--bravo, Charley,' said Mrs.Woodward. 'In the name of the British female public, I beg to thank you for your exertions.' 'The editor said I was to write down turned-up hats,' said Charley.
'I rather like them myself.' 'I hope my new slouch is not an audacious Saracen's head,' said Linda. 'Or mine,' said Katie.
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