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A single citizen appeared at the doorway of the most habitable house

and looked absently over the heads of the new-coer did not observe them Instead, he looked at

the near horizon lifted on the shoulder of the hills and ns of the weather It was Eers at

its door

Julian, with natural desire to be first on this perilous ground and

away frohed at hi the traveler stop, gazed at

hi first to be re and the excellence

of his bodily condition were highly aristocratic His height was good,

his figure modestly athletic as an observance of fine form rather than

a preparation for the arena He was siht blue

woolen tunic A handkerchief was bound about his head His forehead

was very white and half hidden by loose, curling black locks that

escaped with boyish negligence from his head-dress His eyes were

black, his cheeks tanned but colorless, his mouth mirthful and red but

hard in its outlines Clean-shaven, lithe, supple, he did not appear

to be more than twenty-two But there was an even-tempered cynicism

and sophistication in the half-droop of his level lids, indifference,

hauteur and self-reliance in the uplift of his chin His soul was

therefore older, more seasoned and set than the fraitation in his er