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Excerpt from The Doings of Raffles Haw And indeed in this case the remorseless creditor had gone so far as to exact a claim from the lady also, though in her case the extreme beauty of the upper part of the face drew the eye away from any weakness which might be found in the lower. She was darker than her brother, so dark that her heavily-coiled hair seemed to be black until the light shone slantwise across it. The delicate half-petulant features, the fine traced brows, and the thoughtful humorous eyes were all perfect in their way, and yet the combination left something to be desired. There was a vague sense of a flaw somewhere in feature or in expression, which re solved itself, when analyzed, in a slight out-turning and droop of the lower lip, small indeed, and yet pronounced enough to turn what would have been a beautiful face into a merely pretty one. Very despondent and some what cross she looked as she leaned back in the arm chair, a tangle of bright-colored silks and of drab hol land upon her lap, her hands clasped behind her head, with her snowy forearms and little pink elbows pro jecting on either side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.