The world owes a great deal to persons who take such pains to please it.

In this there is certainly some accomplishment of that most difficult precept of the Gospel about rendering good for evil.

This freshness of ablution and all the other little cares harmonized charmingly with the blue eyes, the ivory teeth, and the blond person of the old chevalier.
The only blemish was that this retired Adonis had nothing manly about him; he seemed to be employing this toilet varnish to hide the ruins occasioned by the military service of gallantry only.

But we must hasten to add that his voice produced what might be called an antithesis to his blond delicacy.

Unless you adopted the opinion of certain observers of the human heart, and thought that the chevalier had the voice of his nose, his organ of speech would have amazed you by its full and redundant sound.