Impressions of his appearance she had received in plenty--but received them in flashes, confusing from their very vividness.

Confusing, also, because each one of them was doubled by a haunting consciousness of his likeness to her father.

The traits common to both men, rather than those individually characteristic of the younger, had been in evidence.

And, in her present happier mood, Damaris also desired a picture to set in the storehouse of memory.

But it must represent this brother of hers in and by himself, divorced, as far as might be, from that pursuing, and, to her, singularly agitating likeness.
Her design and her scrutiny were easier of prosecution that, during the last few minutes, Faircloth had retired into silence, and an attitude of abstraction.