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The Golden Lion of Granpere

CHAPTER V
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What woman could doubt for a moment between two such men?
Adrian Urmand was no doubt a pretty man, with black hair, of which he was very careful, with white hands, with bright small dark eyes which were very close together, with a thin regular nose, a small mouth, and a black moustache, which he was always pointing with his fingers.

It was impossible to deny that he was good-looking after a fashion; but Marie despised him in her heart.

She was almost bigger than he was, certainly stronger, and had no aptitude for the city niceness and POINT-DEVICE fastidiousness of such a lover.

George Voss had come back, not taller than when he had left them, but broader in the shoulders, and more of a man.

And then he had in his eye, and in his beaked nose, and his large mouth, and well-developed chin, that look of command, which was the peculiar character of his father's face, and which women, who judge of men by their feelings rather than their thoughts, always love to see.


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