He took off his hat--it was a tall silk one, but no one who knew anything could avoid feeling that it should have been a solar toupee-- when Mrs. Linton stepped from her victoria.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
Slowly, with his ludicrously pompous strut, he marched to the drawing-room door. She had not felt like smiling, but if there had been any such inclination it would have fled before the countenance that turned upon her at the threshold. It was the lean, little face with the funny toupee and needle-like mustache and imperial, but behind it lay a personality like the dull, cold, yellow eyes of the devil-fish ambushed in the hazy mass of dun-colored formlessness of collapsed body and tentacles. He said:英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》