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HE was a short but powerful man--bowlegged from having passed most of his life in the saddle. A Mongol habit. That he was more Mongol than Chinese was stamped on his face.
It was a face that was large and almost perfectly round. The cheekbones were more prominent than the large but bridgeless nose. A moon-face. It was like a platter of hammered brass, the hammered brass effect deriving not only from the color and shine, but the thousand smallpox pits that covered it. Also from the fact that the expression of it never changed.