I conceived an instant dislike for him. It was not only his manner and his words, but the look of him. He was big, as big as I was, slim-hipped and broad-shouldered, but he was also damned handsome. He had bright grey eyes and one of those clean-cut faces beneath fair hair that makes you think of moral norse Gods, too splendid altogether to be in the company of the beauty beside him.
Royal Flash, p.20, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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