Sublime

Julia and Avis were cosmopolitan women who traveled widely, read extensively, and moved in diverse political, intellectual, and social circles. They had many acquaintances in common and frequently referred to public figures and friends by their first names or initials.

indignities

some small plump brownish person of firm but quiet carriage, who looks about her, but does not suppose that anybody is looking at her. If she has a broad face and square brow, well-marked eyebrows and curly dark hair, a certain expression of amusement in her glance which her mouth keeps the secret of, and for the rest features entirely insignifican

only vestiges left in Mr L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

Indeed it is Julia Mills, peevish and fine, with a black man to carry cards and letters to her on a golden salver, and a copper-coloured woman in linen, with a bright handkerchief round her head, to serve her Tiffin in her dressing-room.

“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”

Older, larger, and unpleasantly fleshy.

garrulous