 118  Between him and the four other brothers who were present, James, Swithin, Nicholas, and Roger, there was much difference, much similarity. In turns, each of these four brothers was very different from the other, yet they, too, were alike. Through the varying features and expressions of those five faces could be marked a certain steadfastness of chin, underlying surface distinctions, marking a racial stamp, too prehistoric to trace, too remote and permanent to discuss – the very hall-mark and guarantee of the family fortunes. (From The Forsyte Saga, book 1, by John Galsworthy)
1 Dundreary whiskers – Lord Dundreary is the chief character in Tom Taylor's «Our American Cousin» (1858). 2 a Quilpish look – a mocking, wicked look. Daniel Quilp is a hideous dwarf, ferocious and cunning character in Dickens's «The Old Curiosity Shop» who enjoys tormenting others.
At the top of the hill, they came face to face with the sun. It was a quarter of the way up, cut like a knife by the treeless horizon. Down below them was a valley lying under a cover of mist that was rising slowly from the earth. They could see several houses and farms, but most of them were so far away they were almost indistinguishable in the mist. There was smoke rising from the chimney of the first house... The sun came up above the horizon, fast and red. Streaks of gray clouds, like layers of woodsmoke, swam across the face of it. Almost as quickly as it had risen, the sun shrank into a small fiery button that seared the eyes until it was impossible to look at it any longer. 118 |
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