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The Newcomes

CHAPTER VI
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Mr.Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.

He is not yet endowed with those splendid mustachios and whiskers which he has himself subsequently depicted, but he is the picture of health, strength, activity, and good-humour.

He has a good forehead, shaded with a quantity of waving light hair; a complexion which ladies might envy; a mouth which seems accustomed to laughing; and a pair of blue eyes that sparkle with intelligence and frank kindness.

No wonder the pleased father cannot refrain from looking at him.

He is, in a word, just such a youth as has a right to be the hero of a novel.
The bell rings for second school, and Mr.Popkinson, arrayed in cap and gown, comes in to shake Colonel Newcome by the hand, and to say he supposes it's to be a holiday for Newcome that day.


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