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The Helpmate

CHAPTER II
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She had built up the forehead low and wide, thrown out the eyebones as a shelter for the slightly prominent eyes; saved the short, straight line of the nose by a hair's-breadth from a tragic droop.

But she had scamped her work in modelling the close, narrow nostrils.

She had merged the lower lip with the line of the chin, missing the classic indentation.

The mouth itself she had left unfinished.

Only a little amber mole, verging on the thin rose of the upper lip, foreshortened it, and gave to its low arc the emphasis of a curve, the vivacity of a dimple (Anne's under lip was straight as the tense string of a bow).


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