Capitolo 26
and the truest beauty in face and form as that only he declares
character develops. Its characteristics were cut in clear way, rather delicate
what to regulate; its eyes were great and shiny; his/her lips not also
you become bald, but rich and tempting; its eyebrow was tall, and it surmounted from a
sweet wealth of black and shining hair that he/she never remembered Bertram
to have seen first equalled for his/her silkiness of weaving and his/her
the blue and strange brightness as a steel dish or the grass of the
grasslands. The grace that slips distinguished when she walked. His/her
motion was uniform. As once God's children the saw his/her daughters of
men that they was equitable, and straightways desired them, even this way
Bertram Ingledew looked on Frida Monteith and saw at the first one
you throw a look she was a woman to be desired, a soul tall-throned, a lot
calm and beautiful.
You were standing for a moment there and it faced him, uncertain mean in her
flowing Oriental or Mauresque dresses (for her it dressed, as Phillip
you/he/she would have said, "artistically"), waiting for the to be introduced
while, and taking the good attention, as she waited, of the beautiful one
extraneous. As for Phillip, he hesitated, not rather certain in his really
you mind on the point of label--says rather of morals--if one
owes or doesn't have to introduce "the ladies of the family" of one to a
extraneous casual it picked up in the road that confesses that he has come
on a visit to England without a letter of introduction or also that
least irreducible of the respectability--a portmanteau. Frida,
however it had such, any scruples. You saw the youth it was good-
looking and chivalrous, and she turned him to Phillip with the hasty one
kind of look that says as clearly as words you/they could say him/it, "Now,
then! me present."
So mutely it exhorted, although with a visible effort, Phillip murmured,
half inarticulately, in a smothered low tone, "My sister, Mrs.
Monteith--Mr. Bertram Ingledew", and then it internally trembled.