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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
15/22

May I ask if I have satisfied you ?" With the best will in the world to maintain my unfavorable opinion of him, I was, by this time, fairly forced to acknowledge to myself that the opinion was wrong.

His explanation was, in tone and manner as well as in language, the explanation of a gentleman.
And, besides--though he was a little too effeminate for my taste--he really was such a handsome young man! His hair was of a fine bright chestnut color, with a natural curl in it.

His eyes were of the lightest brown I had ever seen--with a singularly winning gentle modest expression in them.

As for his complexion--so creamy and spotless and fair--he had no right to it: it ought to have been a woman's complexion, or at least a boy's.

He looked indeed more like a boy than a man: his smooth face was quite uncovered, either by beard, whisker, or mustache.


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