Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

“It was Miss Murdstone who was arrived, and a gloomy-looking lady she was...She …”

“When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere …”

“The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill.”

“My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which chi…”