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immense arms, brown and hairy, his power- 

 ful limbs, tower-like neck, and somewhat 

 square jaw were the natural concomitants of 

 enormous physical strength. 



" All the blood and bone and thew and 

 sinew of the house seemed to have fallen to 

 his share ; all the fiery, restless spirit and de- 

 fiant temper ; all the utter recklessness and 

 warrior's instinct. He stood every inch a 

 man, with dark, curling, short-cut hair, brown 

 cheek and Eoman chin, trimmed moustache, 

 brown eye, shaded by long eyelashes and well- 

 marked brows ; every inch a natural king of 

 men. That very physical preponderance and 

 animal beauty was perhaps his bane, for his 

 comrades were so many, and his love adven- 

 tures so innumerable, that they left him no 

 time for serious ambition. 



" Between the brothers there was the 

 strangest mixture of affection and repulsion. 

 The elder smiled at the excitement and energy 

 of the younger; the younger openly despised the 

 studious habits and solitary life of the elder. 

 In time of real trouble and difficulty they 

 would have been drawn together ; as it was, 



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