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Updated: May 2, 2025
He was not a man to surrender easily to the spell of woman, but when he looked into her deep-lidded, smouldering eyes something sultry beat in his blood. "Business may fly out of the window when Mrs. Mallory comes in at the door," he answered. "How gallant of you, especially when I've come with an impertinent question." Her gay eyes mocked him as she spoke.
She looked at the owner of the voice from steady, deep-lidded eyes. The pulse in her brown throat began to beat. One might have guessed her with entire justice a sullen lass, untutored of life, passionate, and high-spirited, resentful of all restraint. Hers was such beauty as lies in rich blood beneath dark coloring, in dusky hair and eyes, in the soft, warm contours of youth.
He was one of many who never understood this tall, white, low-voiced girl, with eyes too pale for beauty, yet strangely alluring, too. Few men denied the indefinable enchantment of her; few men could meet her deep-lidded, transparent gaze unmoved.
Mangan, just a little over-blown, but heavily, darkly handsome, with deep-lidded shadowy eyes, and as Master Coppinger pleased himself by discovering a slight suggestion of a luxurious Chesterfield sofa, upholstered in rich cream velvet.
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