His Other Wife: A Novel — page 159: what you’re looking at

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A SISTER OF CHARITY. 151 through the mist and confusion of dreams, surrounded by the vague shadows of the fictitious characters that emerged from the romance she was reading, and moved’ about that central figure. | Soothed by these half-slumbrous fancies, the sick brain lapsed away into unconscious repose; and Leda knew, by the deep, regular breathings, that Warren slept pro- foundly. She closed the book, and let her gaze dwell without fear upon the grand white face, that lay like an antique bas- relief before her. ‘The ravages of pain and fever had not beautified the inharmonious physiognomy, but had accent- uated the powerful lines of character which rendered Gordon. Warren’s countenance remarkable for force and dignity. The resolute compression of the lips, which was habit-. ual to him, and which gave a look of sternness to his: lower face, save when he smiled or laughed, was not no- ticeable now in the relaxation of slumber. On the con- trary, the softened curves of the fever-flushed mouth seemed almost sensuous by contrast with the severely cut and pallid features to which it belonged. Looking on him thus, it was easy to divine the unerr- ing insignia of character—which, in truth, the lineaments of the face are; and Leda made no great mistake in be- lieving that the passional nature of this man was in no wise inferior in strength to his grandly developed intel- lectual organism. €omicbhooks: co