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Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master__ colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, _ all energy, decision, will, _ were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, _ that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.