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forehead a murderer's, broad and low. The littleness of his eye was
hidden under his bushy eyebrows. His nose, long, sharp, and flabby,
nearly met his mouth. Barkilphedro, properly attired, as an emperor,
would have somewhat resembled Domitian. His face of muddy yellow might
have been modelled in slimy paste--his immovable cheeks were like putty;
he had all kinds of ugly refractory wrinkles; the angle of his jaw was
massive, his chin heavy, his ear underbred. In repose, and seen in
profile, his upper lip was raised at an acute angle, showing two teeth.
Those teeth seemed to look at you. The teeth can look, just as the eye
can bite.
Patience, temperance, continence, reserve, self-control, amenity,
deference, gentleness, politeness, sobriety, chastity, completed and
finished Barkilphedro. He culumniated those virtues by their possession.
In a short time Barkilphedro took a foothold at court.
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