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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER V
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It's good for you, too.

I never saw you look better." He was a tall, thin boy, with a muscular figure, and thick brown hair, which was always rumpled.

Through his ugly spectacles his eyes showed large, dark, and as beautifully soft as a girl's.

His mind was remarkably keen and active, and there was in his carriage something of Gabriella's capable and commanding air, as if, like her, he embodied those qualities which compel acknowledgment.

Though she had never admitted it even to herself, he was her favourite child.
When dinner was over she had the children to herself--to the gracious, unhurried self she gave them--until ten o'clock.


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