 ... put in" but the splendour of the hair and the grace of the clothes — clothes that were not as the clothes of Wilverley. The reflection of these things came back to Jean from a pair of eyes as to which she judged that the extreme lightness of their...  The Other House - Page 14de Henry James - 1897 - 316 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 pages
...upper-middle-class kingdom. When Jean first sees Rose she thinks her 'awfully plain'. Then Rose smiles, and 'the ambiguity that Mrs Beever had spoken of lighted up an ambiguity worth all the dull prettiness in the world'. And it is that ambiguity which makes her by far the most interesting... | |
 | Susan M. Griffin - 412 pages
...demonstrably threatening. Unlike Jean, Rose is not childlike, and her physical appeal is ambiguously striking: "In a flash of small square white teeth this second...the ambiguity that Mrs. Beever had spoken of lighted up—an ambiguity worth all the plain prettiness in the world. Yes, one quite did know: Miss Armiger... | |
 | Henry James - 2003 - 1054 pages
...she judged that the extreme lightness of their grey was what made them so strange as to be ugly—a reflection that spread into a sudden smile from a...the ambiguity that Mrs. Beever had spoken of lighted up—an ambiguity worth all the dull prettiness in the world. Yes, one quite did know: Miss Armiger... | |
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