She is so mercilessly realistic, she takes all the color out of life.

Everything about her, even her speech, is sharp-lined as the edge of a knife.

She could make Bryce's life very miserable." "Perhaps it might turn out the other way.

Bryce Denning has capacities in the same line.

How far apart, how far above every man there, stood Basil Stanhope!" "He is strikingly handsome and graceful, and I am sure that his luminous serenity does not arise from apathy.