"'I must buy him a new suit,' she decided, looking at him intently. She obstinately dressed up her toothless child in fancy clothes, and obstinately insisted upon keeping him clean and tidy, as if cleanliness might give emphasis to a tranquilizing superficiality, obstinating perfecting the polite aspect of beauty. Obstinately removing herself, and removing him from something which must be as 'black as a monkey.''"