Looked lovely when I came out of the parlor.

Can't say how they will show after this young lady puts in an appearance." In reply to which florid speeches Susan blushed, not knowing what else to do, and Clement smiled as naturally as if he had been sitting for his photograph.
He felt, in a vague way, that he and Susan were being patronized, which is not a pleasant feeling to persons with a certain pride of character.
There was no expression of contempt about Mr.Bradshaw's manner or language at which he could take offence.

Only he had the air of a man who praises his neighbor without stint, with a calm consciousness that he himself is out of reach of comparison in the possessions or qualities which he is admiring in the other.

Clement was right in his obscure perception of Mr.Bradshaw's feeling while he was making his phrases.
That gentleman was, in another moment, to have the tingling delight of showing the grand creature he had just begun to tame.

He was going to extinguish the pallid light of Susan's prettiness in the brightness of Myrtle's beauty.