[The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Law and the Lady CHAPTER I 11/13
He looks at me with the tenderest and gentlest eyes (of a light brown) that I ever saw in the countenance of a man.
His smile is rare and sweet; his manner, perfectly quiet and retiring, has yet a latent persuasiveness in it which is (to women) irresistibly winning.
He just halts a little in his walk, from the effect of an injury received in past years, when he was a soldier serving in India, and he carries a thick bamboo cane, with a curious crutch handle (an old favorite), to help himself along whenever he gets on his feet, in doors or out.
With this one little drawback (if it is a drawback), there is nothing infirm or old or awkward about him; his slight limp when he walks has (perhaps to my partial eyes) a certain quaint grace of its own, which is pleasanter to see than the unrestrained activity of other men.
And last and best of all, I love him! I love him! I love him! And there is an end of my portrait of my husband on our wedding-day. The glass has told me all I want to know.
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