She had delicate oval features, light, laughing blue eyes, a pretty nez
retroussé, (why have we not the term, since we have the best specimens of the
feature?) teeth of pearly whiteness, and a brilliant complexion, set off by rich
auburn hair, a very white neck and shoulders,—the latter, perhaps, a trifle too
much exposed. When sentence was
passed there wasn't a dry eye in the court. ”
“We’ll have, thank God! ten myriad days to tell each other things. Some of the delicate colour which the
afternoon walk had brought into her cheeks had already returned. His voice
when he spoke was almost fiercely assertive, but there was an undernote of
nervousness. So they fenced
with smiles. Because here was the haven for which she had been blindly groping: the positive
abolition of all her father's rights in her—the right to drag her back. ‘I do not need for you to tell me
this. It was a moment before he recognised that the effect had been
similar on all those present, including General Lord Charvill. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days.
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