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"Dipankar had rather chiseled features, not like the milder, more rounded, features of the rather large-eyed Amit, who fitted (their mother) Mrs. Chatterji's Bengali idea of good looks. She always thought of Dipankar as a sort of ugly duckling, was fiercely ready to protect him against accusations of angularity and boniness, and was amazed when women of the younger generation babbled on about how attractive he was."

Full of delightful touches as this one:
"She had been crying in the tonga. The tonga-wallah, concerned that such a decently dressed lady should be weeping so openly, had tried to keep up a monologue in order to pretend he hadn't noticed, but she had gone not only through her embroidered handkerchief but her reserve handkerchief as well."