82 She was putting a manuscript away, gingerly locking its heavy tooled cover, but it was a huge, awkward tome. . Even in her own sorry skin-and-bones state of wraithlike pallor and gray under eye circles she was drawing unwanted attention from would-be admirers. Their expression was so amiable, that it would have redeemed a countenance a thousand times plainer than hers. She was lamentably without comparisons; such few young men as she had seen—white men—had been on the beach, pitiful and terrible objects. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. "Your voice seems familiar to me—and—but I'm getting a little deaf—and my eyes don't serve me quite so well as they used to do, especially by this light. Who was he to tread on her dreams? She had heroworshipped an unscrupulous adventurer, who had not hesitated to impose on her youth and her ignorance. He cocked an eyebrow. Her mouth was worthy of her face; with small, pearly-white teeth; lips glossy, rosy, and pouting; and the sweetest smile imaginable, playing constantly about them. ” She looked at him; his face, downcast and in profile, was handsome and strong. " "What a life!" "No worse than yours. " "Impracticable dolt!" exclaimed Jonathan, furiously. "Do you know anything further of Sir Rowland?" he asked. "The lash cuts to the bone.
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