Apple-faced

There is not a messenger or process-server attached to it, who wears a coat that was made for him; not a tolerably fresh, or wholesome-looking man in the whole establishment, except a little white-headed apple-faced tipstaff, and even he, like an ill-conditioned cherry preserved in brandy, seems to have artificially dried and withered up into a state of preservation to which he can lay no natural claim.

"It has been nice for me to make a career out of being the apple-faced girl that everyone wants to marry." Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern.

Thank God, black goes with everything" Singer Morrissey commenting on the recent spate of celebrity deaths "It has been nice for me to make a career out of being the apple-faced girl that everyone wants to marry" Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern WRITE Letters Editor Media Wales Ltd, Six Park Street, Cardiff CF10 1XR e-mail readers@walesonline.co.uk FAX 029 2024 4143 NOTE please include your name and address for publication and a daytime telephone number