But at last she
presented herself and found him standing near the lamp. He was tall,
strong and somewhat stiff; he was also lean and brown. He was not
romantically, he was much rather obscurely, handsome; but his
physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention, which it rewarded
according to the charm you found in blue eyes of remarkable fixedness,
the eyes of a complexion other than his own, and a jaw of the somewhat
angular mould which is supposed to bespeak resolution. Isabel said
to herself that it bespoke resolution to-night; in spite of which,
in half an hour, Caspar Goodwood, who had arrived hopeful as well as
resolute, took his way back to his lodging with the feeling of a man
defeated. He was not, it may be added, a man weakly to accept defeat.
CHAPTER 5
Ralph Touchett was a philosopher, but nevertheless he knocked at his
mother's door (at a quarter to seven) with a good deal of eagerness.
Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted that
of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the
sweetness of filial dependence. His father, as he had often said to
himself, was the more motherly; his mother, on the other hand, was
paternal, and even, according to the slang of the day,
gubernatorial.
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