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[Kominski Winbush]

Wever, they were not apparent; the excellent, honest fellow looked
placid and contented. Gordon Wright had a clear gray eye, short,
straight, flaxen hair, and a healthy diffusion of color. His features
were thick and rather irregular; but his countenance--in addition to the
merit of its expression--derived a certain grace from a powerful yellow
moustache, to which its wearer occasionally gave a martial twist. Gordon
Wright was not tall, but he was strong, and in his whole person there
was something well-planted and sturdy. He almost always dressed in
light-colored garments, and he wore round his neck an eternal blue
cravat. When he was agitated he grew very red. While he questioned
Longueville about his journey and his health, his whereabouts and his
intentions, the latter, among his own replies, endeavored to read in
Wright's eyes some account of his present situation. Was that pretty
girl at his side the ambiguous object of his adoration, and, in that
case, what was the function of the elder lady, and what had become of
her argumentative daughter? Perhaps this was another, a younger
daughter, though, indeed, she bore no resemblance to either of
Longueville's friends. Gordon Wright, in spite of Bernard's
interrogative glances, indulged in no optical confidences. He had too
much to tell. He would keep his story till they should be alone
together. It was impossible that they should adjourn just yet to social
solitude; the two ladies were under Gordon's protection. Mrs.
Vivian--Bernard felt a satisfaction in learning her name; it was as if a
curtain, half pulled up and stopped by a hitch, had suddenly been raised
altogether--Mrs. Vivian sat looking up and down the terrace at the crowd
of loungers and talkers with an air of tender expectation. She was
probably looking for her elder daughter, and Longueville could not help
wishing also that this young lady would arrive. Meanwhile, he saw that
the young girl to whom Gordon had been devoting himself was extremely
pretty, and appeared eminently approachabl
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