Yes, 'handsome' rather than 'pretty'." He looked up from a brief reverie.
"You fellows known her long ?" "You bet!" said Ramsey.
"She made a splendid impression on the Lumen," Colburn went on.

"I don't remember that I ever saw a first appearance there that quite equalled it.

She'll probably have a brilliant career in the society, and in the university, too.

She must be a very fine sort of person." He deliberated within himself a few moments longer, then, realizing that his hosts and Brethren did not respond with any heartiness--or with anything at all--to the theme, he changed it, and asked them what they thought about the war in Europe.
They talked of the war rather drowsily for a while; it was an interesting but not an exciting topic: the thing they spoke of was so far away.

It was in foreign countries where they had never been and had no acquaintances; and both the cause and the issue seemed to be in confusion, though evidently Germany had "started" the trouble.