She posed herself before her mirror and surveyed herself with gravely thoughtful, gravely critical, and yet admiring eyes. It was the one that she had sworn she’d throw out, if only Julian had not liked it so much. Permit me to make him known to you—Mr. "The gen'l'man'll be here directly. Play foul, and win. It’s no good hiding it any more. You never can tell. He did not stagger in the least. ’ A reluctant laugh escaped him. There was a short, red-faced, resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like diamonds, return to his own place. To a woman she might have confided; but to this man, kindly as he was, it was unthinkable. ” He was bereft of words for a moment, and in that moment she escaped, having passed him on deftly to one of the later arrivals. Some had the dignity and the aloofness of a rock in the sea; and others were as the polished pebbles on the sands—one saw the difference of pebble from pebble only by close scrutiny.
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