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Excerpt from The First Person Singular
Lora sibley stood just outside the bronze doors of the north entrance to the New York Public Library, drawing on her suede gloves. From the top of the marble steps to F orty-second Street she surveyed the passersby without any real apprehension of their existence. She was slightly above the average height, rather slender. She wore, if exactitude be demanded, a navy-blue tricotine and a smart black hat, the latter nicely adjusted upon her dexterously arranged brown hair. She had a straight nose and a pleas ing, quizzical mouth. Her eyebrows were pronouncedly curved, giving 'her an expression of surprise even when she was not particularly surprised. She had dark eyes.
But how many men can describe a woman? I shall dodge hastily behind the useful phrase unique charm. Flora had it. It was enhanced by an aloof, slightly astringent manner, an innate shyness she had never quite conquered from girlhood.
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