Their course led through a rugged wilderness, widely
diversified and transcendently beautiful, and the girl was rather
glad of the opportunity to enjoy it in silence. Also by reason of the
fact that Bryce's gaze never wavered from the road immediately in
front of the car, she had a chance to appraise him critically while
pretending to look past him to the tumbled, snow-covered ranges to
their right.
She saw a big, supple, powerful man of twenty-five or six, with the
bearing and general demeanour of one many years his elder. His rich,
dark auburn hair was wavy, and a curling lock of it had escaped from
the band of his cap at the temple; his eyes were brown to match his
hair and were the striking feature of a strong, rugged countenance,
for they were spaced at that eminently proper interval which
proclaims an honest man. His nose was high, of medium thickness and
just a trifle long--the nose of a thinker. His ears were large, with
full lobes--the ears of a generous man. The mouth, full-lipped but
firm, the heavy jaw and square chin, the great hands (most amazingly
free from freckles) denoted the man who would not avoid a fight worth
while. Indeed, while the girl was looking covertly at him, she saw
his jaw set and a sudden, fierce light leap up in his eyes, which at
first sight had seemed to her rather quizzical.
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