Am I still to go on?'
'Yes, yes.'
'The beauty of the face, as I said before, was entirely confined to
the upper portion. It did not extend lower than the cheek-bones,
which were well shaped.'
'The mouth, Winnie? Describe that, and then I need not ask you his
name, though perhaps you don't know it yourself.'
'A dark brown moustache covered the mouth. I have always thought that
a mouth is unattractive if the lips are so close to the teeth that
they seem to stick to them; and yet what a kind woman Mrs. Shales is,
and her mouth is of this kind. But, on the other hand, where the
space between the teeth and the lips is too great no mouth can be
called beautiful, I think. Now though the mouth of the gentleman was
not ill-cut, the lips were too far from the teeth, I thought; they
were too loose, a little baggy, in short. And when he laughed--'
'What about that, Winnie? I specially want to know about his laugh.'
'Then I will tell you. When he laughed his teeth were a little too
much seen; and this gave the mouth a somewhat satirical expression.
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