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or one of the chief nobles in his train The melancholy Jacques,

perhaps? Be it so In that case, you can probably do me a favor"

I never, in my life, felt less inclined to confer a favor on any er made me sensible of his presence, that

he had almost the effect of an apparition; and certainly a less

appropriate one (taking into view the die irdle, had started out of a thicket He was still young,

seeure,

and as handsome a man as ever I beheld The style of his beauty,

however, though a masculine style, did not at all commend itself to my

taste His countenance--I hardly kno to describe the

peculiarity--had an indecoru freedoree of

external polish could have abated one single jot Not that it was

vulgar But he had no fineness of nature; there was in his eyes

(although they h of another sort) the naked

exposure of soue allusions to what I have seen in other faces as well as his, I

leave the quality to be conance--by those who possess least of it