Then, though your figure is very fine for showing off models, it isn't exactly the kind that men lean to.

If you'd fatten up it might be different, but that would spoil you for the clothes, and that, after all, is more important.

It's strange, isn't it ?" she croaked, with an alcoholic chuckle, "how partial men are to full figures even after they have gone out of fashion ?" And with this wonder still ringing in her ears, Gabriella turned away, to attend a customer, who demanded, in cool defiance of man and nature, to be transformed into a straight silhouette.
Gabriella had not seen Judge Crowborough for several years, and her first impression, when she entered his office at five o'clock, was one of surprise at his ugliness.

Though he had changed but little since their first meeting at Mrs.Fowler's dinner, the years had softened her memory of his appearance, and she had skilfully persuaded herself that one should not judge a man by a repelling exterior, which, after all, might cover a great deal of goodness.

After George's flight and Archibald Fowler's death he had been very kind to her.