His boots were of _glace_ kid and as smooth as his cheeks.

The cheeks had a fresh boyish colour, and between them, over admirable snowy teeth, projected the hooked key to this temperament.

It _is_ possible that Alice, from sheer thoughtlessness, shared the vulgar prejudice against Jews; but certainly she did not now feel it.

The man's personal charm, his exceeding niceness, had always conquered that prejudice, whenever encountered.

Moreover, he was only about thirty-five in years, and no such costly and beautiful male had ever yet stood on Alice's doorstep.
She at once, in her mind, contrasted him with the curates of the previous week, to the disadvantage of the Established Church.