... the fireplace, the close-piled curls, and eyes—somewhat "a fleur de tete"—of the bust were undoubtedly repeated with some closeness in the living man. Those whom he had offended by some social carelessness or other said of him when they wished to run him down, that he was "floridly" handsome; and there ... — The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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