She was of that species of women whom you commend rather for good qualities than beauty, and who are generally called, by their own sex, very
good sort of women--as good a sort of woman, madam, as you would wish to know.
She would be told, "Oh, So-and-so's a good sort--a thundering
good sort," and find, on meeting him, that he was a brute or a bore.
But everybody is to judge for themselves, and the Lucases are a very
good sort of girls, I assure you.
The friends from whom she had just parted, though very
good sort of people, must be doing her harm.
Then Sviazhsky--he's the marshal of the district, and he's a very
good sort of a man, but he wants to get something out of Alexey.
You will be under the care of a motherly
good sort of woman, of whose kindness to you I can have no doubt.
Bagnet, who seems in a virtuous way to be under little reserve with a
good sort of fellow, but to be another
good sort of fellow herself for that matter, receives this compliment by flicking Mr.
"Do you think that is a
good sort of thing for her to be poking over?
"You are an awfully
good sort," he said to her once a propos of nothing at all.
I grant you, that any of them but Charles would be a very shocking match for Henrietta, and indeed it could not be; he is the only one that could be possible; but he is a very good-natured,
good sort of a fellow; and whenever Winthrop comes into his hands, he will make a different sort of place of it, and live in a very different sort of way; and with that property, he will never be a contemptible man--good, freehold property.
He is a
good sort of fellow, fond of his bottle, tells funny stories, and moreover is very free with his money, so as always to be ready to stand a treat."
He may be a very
good sort of young man, he thinks, but he has no business there, and the sooner he is gone, the better.