Guavas the Tinner Author:Sabine Baring-Gould General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ... more »may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V LINKED FINGERS WITH roused interest Isolt looked at the tall man who had entered. Guavas stood for a while motionless, till his eyes were accustomed to the light within. Whilst he thus stood, Isolt's orbs were fastened on him. He was taller, more stately in appearance, than any other man in the hall. His face was pale, not ruddy, perhaps by day dusky in hue, now, compared with the red and brown complexions of the fair haired miners of Devon, he looked white. His long raven locks rose off his brow in a wave, and curled behind his ears over his shoulders. Broad of shoulder, stout of limb, he seemed a greater and a nobler man than every other in the room, as one belonging to a higher caste, shaped in another mould. In type he resembled onlyherself. They two belonged to one order, in stature, in colour, in boldness of sculpture of feature. Slowly Isolt turned her eyes away from the stranger and looked at Evea and then at Rawle, and her beautiful lips curled with contempt. What were these two before the Cornishman ? Were they fashioned out of the same clay ? Were they shaped by the same artist hand ? Her eyes reverted to Eldad, and now hers encountered his large dark orbs, soft, yet with fire lurking in them. At once, without knowing why, the blood mounted to her brow and she felt abashed. She lowered her eyes. A moment later, and she lifted them again and looked, and again his eyes were fixed on and met hers. And so it ...« less