The marrying man is shrewd enough to realize that domestic virtues will be more useful in his household economy than all the academic beauty ever chiselled out of block marble.
Shirley was not beautiful, but hers was a face that never failed to attract attention.

It was a thoughtful and interesting face, with an intellectual brow and large, expressive eyes, the face of a woman who had both brain power and ideals, and yet who, at the same time, was in perfect sympathy with the world.

She was fair in complexion, and her fine brown eyes, alternately reflective and alert, were shaded by long dark lashes.

Her eyebrows were delicately arched, and she had a good nose.

She wore her hair well off the forehead, which was broader than in the average woman, suggesting good mentality.