He surveyed the young woman through his spectacles as she passed again, with cold disapproval.
"French or German ?" he asked.
"I really don't know.

She has a singular facility in tongues," said Miss Vance.
"Well, that is not the companion _I_ should have chosen for those innocent little girls," he said authoritatively, glad to be disagreeable to his cousin.

"She looks like a hawk among doves." "The woman is harmless enough," said Miss Vance tartly.

"She speaks exquisite French." "But what does she say in it ?" persisted George.

"She is vulgar from her red pompon to her boots.