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The face, too, was probably what, if not informed by a singularly clean and fine soul, would, in the lapse of years, become gross, the skin of a clear olive, which had slightly flushed as he addressed herself, but not when speaking to other strangers, kept beardless, and rather square in contour; the mouth not small, but keenly cut, like marble, and always quivering before he spoke, as if the lightning of his thought ran thither naturally to seek spontaneous expression; teeth white; chin cleft; nose of the unclassified order, rather long, the curve opposite to aquiline, and saved from sharpness by nostrils that dilated with a pulse of their own, as those of very proud and sensitive people are apt to do; a wide, low forehead crowned with dark hair, long and fine; heavy brows that overhung deep-set eyes of lightest hazel, but endowed by shadow with a power that no eye of gypsy-black ever swayed for an instant.
The young face, in its handsome and arrogant vigour, the gypsy-black hair and eyes, the powerful shoulders in the blue serge coat, the sunburnt neck exposed by the loose, turn-down collar above the greenish tie there they were, as he had painted them, lying once more under his hand. The flickering light of the candle showed him his signature and the date. He laid it down and drew a long breath.
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