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A soldier? A prince? Someone used to great responsibility, and responsible his authority. Someone too-conscientious. A worrier; perhaps a perfectionist A maxi at ease in a large design, but anxious over details. A candidate for gastric ulcer. Some-on; too, who had suffered ill-health as a child. He had that incommunicable, that indescribable look that childhood suffering leaves behind it; less positive than the look on a cripple's face, but as inescapable. This the artist had both
understood and translated into terms of paint. The slight fullness of the lower eyelid, like a child that has slept too heavily; the texture of the skin; the old-man look in a young face.
He turned the portrait over to look for a caption
On the back was printed: Richard the Third. From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery Artist Unknown.
Richard the Third.
So that was who it was. Richard the Third. Crouchback. The monster of nursery stories. The destroyer of innocence. A synonym for villainy.
He turned the paper over and looked again. Was that what the artist had tried to convey when lie had painted those eyes? Had what he had seen in those eyes been the look of a man haunted?
He lay a long time looking at that face; at those extra
ordinary eyes. They were long eyes, set close under. tilt brows; the brows slightly drawn in that worried, over conscientious frown. At
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