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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Down to take one more plunge, then back to the house. I'm going out early this afternoon, and I must be ready." Theodora's next remark fell upon empty ears. Gifford Barrett was watching Phebe as she went away, admiring her tall, lithe figure, her well-set head, and wondering why in the name of all that was musical this girl should snub him so roundly.
A wiry, nervous, clean-cut man, with brown hair and eyes, a slim, straight nose, and a well-set head, he would have commanded little attention had it not been for the nameless stamp set upon him by his training at an English public-school. It is impossible to analyze this stamp, yet it exists and insists upon recognition.
His brows, slightly lined upward at the temples, converging to a knot about the well-set straight nose; his full grey eyes, open nostrils, and planted feet, and a gentlemanly air of calm and alertness, formed a spirited picture of a young combatant. As for Ripton, he was all abroad, and fought in school-boy style that is, he rushed at the foe head foremost, and struck like a windmill.
And his son, on the other side of the room a hopeful young scholar, who had already suggested some "not less elegant than ingenious," emendations of Greek texts said nearly at the same time, "By George! who is that girl with the awfully well-set head and jolly figure?"
Her hair, which was abundant, and grew, like that of her father, in points upon her forehead, was caught up in a twist which showed the lines of a well-set neck, and then rippled downward in curls that were scrupulously cared for, after the fashion of young shop-women, whose desire to attract attention inspires the truly English minutiae of their toilet.
"Th' owld Squire! Th' owld Squire!" he muttered; "I see 'im now as broad an' tall and well-set up a gentleman as ever lived and sez he: 'Josey, that little white thing is all I've got left of the wife I was bringin' 'ome to be the sunshine of the old Manor. Ay, he said that! 'Its eyes are like those of my Dearest! Ay, he said that, too! The little white thing!
She yielded with a pretty indifference, none the less charming because there was no flattery in it for him. He now sat facing her, pushing his oars through the water; and she stole a curious glance at his features slightly sullen for the moment noticing his well-set, well-shaped head and good shoulders. That fugitive glance confirmed the impression of recognition in her mind.
Her name was Dilrubâ, which signifies, being interpreted, "Heart-ravisher." She may have been seventeen or eighteen; she was of a good height and elegantly proportioned, with a well-set neck, sloping shoulders, and fine bust; and her carriage had that stately and sylph-like grace which no words can depict, and which is found nowhere on earth but among the Orientals.
Oh, that such persons would let the prophet's words sink into their frothy minds, and fasten upon their careless hearts: 'Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, the Lord will smite with a sore the crown of their head, and discover their shame: instead of well-set hair, there shall be baldness, and burning instead of beauty."
We have noticed her dress first, because that was most noticeable. She herself was a fine, tall, well-modelled girl, who would have been graceful had fashion allowed her. She had one beauty a column-like neck and well-set head, which she carried very loftily. Her features were somewhat large, not pretty, and yet not plain.
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