Upon the whole, he had a frail, languidly-fretful, over-refined look - something singularly and upleasantly delicate in its association with a man, and, at the same time, something which could by no possibility have looked natural and appropriate if it had been transferred to the personal appearance of a woman. My morning's experience of Miss Halcombe had predisposed me to be pleased with everybody in the house, but my sympathies shut themselves up resolutely at the first sight of Mr. Fairlie.
(from The Woman in White, by William Wilkie Collins)
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