Questions about The Woman in White

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Mr. Fairle is seen as rather effeminate. He is described: “His feet were effeminately small, and were clad in buff-coloured silk stockings, and little womanish bronze-leather slippers.…he had a frail, languidly-fretful, over-refined look－something singularly and unpleasantly delicate in its association with a man, and, at the same time, something which could by no possibility have looked natural and appropriate if it had been transferred to the personal appearance of a woman.”