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Her at a small table in a corner with her

back to him, opposite to one of the handsomest men he had ever seen As

Artois came in, he fixed his eyes on thisto deterht to

the success he had achieved, any fitness for the companionship that was

to be his, companionship of an unusual intellect and a still er than Hermione, not tall, athletic in

build but also graceful, with the grace that is shed through a frame by

perfectly developed, not over-developed muscles and accurately trained

limbs, a man of the Mercury rather than of the Hercules type, with thick,

loing black hair, vivid, enthusiastic black eyes, set rather wide

apart under curved brows, and very perfectly proportioned, sht features, which were not undecided, yet which suggested the

features of a boy In the coe of brown that

denoted health and an out-door life--an out-door life in the south,

Artois thought

As Artois, standing quite still, unconsciously, in the doorway of the