She is a charming hostess; we talk of Shakespeare and the musical glasses.

She is extremely clever and a very curious type; not at all coarse or wanting to be coarse; determined not to be.

She means to take very good care of herself.

She is extremely perfect; she is as hard and clear-cut as some little figure of a sea-nymph in an antique intaglio, and I will warrant that she has not a grain more of sentiment or heart than if she was scooped out of a big amethyst.

You can't scratch her even with a diamond.
Extremely pretty,--really, when you know her, she is wonderfully pretty,--intelligent, determined, ambitious, unscrupulous, capable of looking at a man strangled without changing color, she is upon my honor, extremely entertaining." "It's a fine list of attractions," said Newman; "they would serve as a police-detective's description of a favorite criminal.