One great tress alone escaped from it, and by some cunning manipulation was made to stand straight out, as if blown by the wind from its fastenings.
In comparison her suite looked commonplace and mean.

Poor Miss O'Dwyer was arrayed--'gowned,' she would have said herself in reporting the scene--in vesture not wanting in splendour, but which beside Miss Goold's could not catch the eye.

Thomas Grealy, awkward and stooped, peered through his glasses at the crowd.

Tim Halloran walked jauntily, but his eyes glanced nervously from side to side.

He was certainly ill at ease, possibly frightened, at the position in which he found himself.
A hurried consultation took place among the gentlemen on the platform, which ended in Mr.O'Rourke stepping forward with a smile and an outstretched hand to welcome Augusta Goold as she ascended the steps.
The expression of his face belied the smile which he had impressed upon his lips.