eliot_george_middlemarch_05of45

"Having convinced herself that Mr. Casaubon was altogether right, she recovered her equinimity, and was an agreeable image of serene dignity when she came into the drawing room in her silver-grey dress, the simple lines of her dark brown hair parted over her brow and coiled massively behind..."

"The remark was taken up by Mr. C, a middle-aged bachelor and coarsing celebrity, who had a complexion something like an Easter egg, a few hairs carefully arranged, and a carriage implying the consciousness of a distinguished appearance." "a complexion something like an Easter egg"...这描写绝了