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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 -- "