I suppose I must have seen others, but I remember one particularly, for being an American; he was dreadfully thin and had straight black hair, and a queer little pointed black beard, and I _think_ he spoke through his nose; and really I began to be haunted by a recollection of this man, and to think I was going to have a cousin just like him.' Then she told me about going over to Hunsdon and finding he had arrived.

She said that before the end of the day they were fast friends." "He was not like what she expected, then ?" "Just the opposite.

She made me laugh about that.

She said, 'I like handsome people, and I like an English style of beauty for men.

My poor dear Sir John is not handsome, though he has a good face; but really when a man is good-looking _and_ looks good, I can't resist him.'" "You seem to have been much occupied with this question of looks.