Mrs.Low had told her husband more than once that he was much too handsome to do any good.

Mr.Low, however, had replied that young Finn had never shown himself to be conscious of his own personal advantages.

"He'll learn it soon enough," said Mrs.
Low.

"Some woman will tell him, and then he'll be spoilt." I do not think that Phineas depended much as yet on his own good looks, but he felt that Mr.Kennedy ought to be despised by such a one as Lady Laura Standish, because his looks were not good.

And she must despise him! It could not be that a woman so full of life should be willing to put up with a man who absolutely seemed to have no life within him.