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Fitzpiers was, on the whole, a finely formed, handsome man His eyes

were dark and iy or

of susceptivity--it was difficult to say which; it , practical eye, sharp for the

surface of things and for nothing beneath it, he had not But whether

his apparent depth of vision was real, or only an artistic accident of

his corporealbut his deeds could reveal

His face was rather soft than stern, charrand, pale than

flushed; his nose--if a sketch of his features be de rigueur for a

person of his pretensions--was artistically beautiful enough to have

been worth doing in marble by any sculptor not over-busy, and was hence

devoid of those knotty irregularities which often mean pohile the

double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness

in its close Nevertheless, either from his readily appreciative mien,

or his reflective s which

was said to possess him, his presence bespoke the philosopher rather

than the dandy or macaroni--an effect which was helped by the absence

of trinkets or other trivialities froh this wasrural

practitioners

Strict people of the highly respectable class, knowing a little about