Excerpt from Maid Marion, and Other Stories
Yes, it was surely the embodiment of feminine beauty - the dark, narrow-lidded eyes, wide apart - did you ever notice the terrible intelligence in the eyes of a portrait - the slim patrician nose, the hair so quaintly coifed with pearl, the uplifted hand: no wonder that Macfarren gazed at it with something like reverence. You will be apt to im agine that Macfarren was an enthusiast, possibly with darkly curling hair and of a byronic-dantesque cast' of countenance. Quite the contrary. He was a keen-witted, hard-headed New York lawyer fast galloping out of his forties - a well-made, well dressed man, with a clear-cut, sensible face. His hair had been tri?ed with by the hand of Time, and what remained is not worth describing.
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| ISBN: | 9780282853471 |
| Publication date: | 21st October 2017 |
| Author: | Molly Elliot Seawell |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |