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The Mutiny of the Elsinore

CHAPTER IX
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All the health and buoyancy of her was in her mouth, as well as in her eyes.

She rarely exposed her teeth in smiling, for which purpose she seemed chiefly to employ her eyes; but when she laughed she showed strong white teeth, even, not babyish in their smallness, but just the firm, sensible, normal size one would expect in a woman as healthy and normal as she.
I would never have called her beautiful, and yet she possessed many of the factors that go to compose feminine beauty.

She had all the beauty of colouring, a white skin that was healthy white and that was emphasized by the darkness of her lashes, brows, and hair.

And, in the same way, the darkness of lashes and brows and the whiteness of skin set off the warm gray of her eyes.

The forehead was, well, medium-broad and medium high, and quite smooth.


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