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"How pretty Rhoda is looking! Arthur, I am sure, in spite of what you / say, that she _will_ make a sensation in London. Her features are so / regular, and her complexion, though she _is_ pale, is so wonderfully / clear and pure. Besides she looks so good, so -- "
"She had better look _bad_," growled old Mr. Duberly, in response to his / daughter's sisterly remarks on the personal recommendations of the / _debutante_ from Sandyshire. "She had far better look as wicked as the / evil one himself if she wants to nobble the young Lunnon gents. A gell / who ‘looks good' has no more chance of what you call getting on there / than my Soph," and he winked at his daughter facetiously, "would have / had, if she hadn't happened to have a few thousand pounds in her pocket, / poor gell! There's that Lady Fy, as they call her, with her dead eyes / and painted hair; I wonder where _she_ would be if looking good was the / order of the day, and if whalebone didn't make the woman, and -- "