Then contemplate a softness beside which the velvet upon the
petal of a pansy would seem rigid; and this eye large and timorous,
and fringed with long, dark lashes!
I do not like the work of cataloguing 'divine wares,' especially
when my most elaborate estimate must present a picture crude and
mathematical compared with the ideal.
This girl's nose was Roman in type; and was precisely like that
which the engraver gives to Annette Marton. The nostrils were finely
chiselled, betokening sensitiveness: and I may add that I have never
known anybody with a thick nostril to be sensitive.
For a moment Roland's eyes were fixed wistfully upon the girl's, and
he did not answer her question. But escape from the enquiring,
unflinching stare was out of the question; so he said, mustering all
the courage that he could:
'Well, to tell you the truth, Aster, I think you are twenty times
too good for this fellow Ham; and therefore I should not like to see
you marry him; to see the two farms become one.'
'Oh, I did not think that you considered me in any sense a superior
girl; and I must feel highly flattered that you put a higher price
upon that superiority than upon the splendid property adjoining my
father's.
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