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"You didn't want me to get across!" Lister studied her. He doubted if it was altogether exertion that had brought the blood to her skin and given her eyes the keen sparkle. Clinging to the rock, with the shadowy gulf below, she looked strangely alert and virile. Her figure cut against the sky; he noted its slenderness and finely-drawn lines.
And, therefore, we cannot sufficiently commend the care which his illustrious friends took to erect a monument so capable of giving him immortal glory. See ante, ii. 326, and iv. 236. See ante, p. iii. To this finely-drawn character we may add the noble testimony of Sir Joshua Reynolds: 'His pride had no meanness in it; there was nothing little or mean about him. Taylor's Reynolds, ii. 457.
They've turned him into a perfect little savage!" Raymond de Chelles advanced from behind his mother's chair. "He won't be a savage long with me," he said, stooping down so that his fatigued finely-drawn face was close to Paul's. Their eyes met and the boy smiled. "Come along, old chap," Chelles continued in English, drawing the little boy after him.
It is not every one who can be lavish without going a little beyond the finely-drawn boundary which divides luxury from extravagance; for useless profusion is by nature as contrary to what is aesthetic as fat in the wrong place, and is quite as sure to be seen.
The most amusing and finely-drawn character in this novel is a secondary one, Mrs. Poyser, but painted with a vividness which Scott never excelled, and with a wealth of humor which Fielding never equalled.
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