So the unbeautiful get many more lovers than the beauties; only, as there are more of them, their lovers are spread thinner and do not make so much show.
The young master stood looking at Helen Darley with a kind of tender admiration.

She was such a picture of the martyr by the slow social combustive process, that it almost seemed to him he could see a pale lambent nimbus round her head.
"I did not see you at the great party last evening," he said, presently.
She looked up and answered, "No.

I have not much taste for such large companies.

Besides, I do not feel as if my time belonged to me after it has been paid for.

There is always something to do, some lesson or exercise,--and it so happened, I was very busy last night with the new problems in geometry.