She wore a very purple dress, a black silk mantle with jet fringe on it and a black bonnet with purple velvet flowers which stuck up and trembled when she moved her head.

Mary did not like her at all, but as she very seldom liked people there was nothing remarkable in that; besides which it was very evident Mrs.Medlock did not think much of her.
"My word! she's a plain little piece of goods!" she said.

"And we'd heard that her mother was a beauty.

She hasn't handed much of it down, has she, ma'am ?" "Perhaps she will improve as she grows older," the officer's wife said good-naturedly.

"If she were not so sallow and had a nicer expression, her features are rather good.