[The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Eustace Diamonds CHAPTER III 18/26
She would take up your subject, whatever it was, and make it her own.
There was forward just then a question as to whether the Sawab of Mygawb should have twenty millions of rupees paid to him and be placed upon a throne, or whether he should be kept in prison all his life.
The British world generally could not be made to interest itself about the Sawab, but Lucy positively mastered the subject, and almost got Lord Fawn into a difficulty by persuading him to stand up against his chief on behalf of the injured prince. What else can be said of her face or personal appearance that will interest a reader? When she smiled, there was the daintiest little dimple on her cheek.
And when she laughed, that little nose, which was not as well-shaped a nose as it might have been, would almost change its shape and cock itself up in its mirth.
Her hands were very thin and long, and so were her feet,--by no means models as were those of her friend Lady Eustace.
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