The Belfry by May Sinclair, Fiction, Literary, Romance

& 34;I don& 39;t say there was anything unmanly about Jevons& 39;s figure -- he wasn& 39;t noticeably undersized -- or about his mouth and jaw. After all, I knew a great Army general with a mouth and jaw like that, and he was one of the handsomest figures in the service. I& 39;m not hinting at anything like effeminacy in Jevons -- only at a certain oddity that really saved him. If he& 39;d been handsome he& 39;d have been dreadful. His flush, his decorative eyes, his dark eyebrows and eyelashes, his sleek, light brown hair, would have made him vulgar.& 34;I dwell on these physical details because -- well, at some point I found myself continually looking at him as if to see where his charm lay.& 34;To see, I suppose, what she sees in him.& 34;