Angel Island, Inez Haynes Gillmore [the two towers ebook txt] 📗

of libertine. Woman, first and foremost, washis game. Every woman attracted him. No woman held him. Any new woman,however plain, immediately eclipsed her predecessor, however beautiful.The fact that amorous interests took precedence over all others wasquite enough to make him vaguely unpopular with men. But as in addition,he was a physical type which many women find interesting, it is likelythat an instinctive sex-jealousy, unformulated but inevitable, biassedtheir judgment. He was a typical business man; but in appearance herepresented the conventional idea of an artist. Tall, muscular,graceful, hair thick and a little wavy, beard pointed and golden-brown,eyes liquid and long-lashed, women called him "interesting." There was,moreover, always a slight touch of the picturesque in his clothes; hewas master of the small amatory ruses which delight flirtatious women.

In brief, men were always divided in their own minds in regard to RalphAddington. They knew that, constantly, he broke every canon