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Marion received Alan warmly, Jan with a reserve that he alone, perhaps, appreciated. She was seated in an alcove of the drawing-room when they arrived between her father and a man of middle age, whose face was of surpassing ugliness. His eyes were small, grey, and piercing; his nose was large, but flat rather than prominent; his cheeks were puffed and flabby, and he possessed the jaw of a brute. At first sight he resembled a bulldog, but a closer examination irritatingly suggested a swinish ancestry. Seated at a little distance was Harold Keeling, whose almost perfect male beauty afforded an eye-pleasing contrast.
Jan nodded to Keeling, whom he knew slightly, but the pig-like man was a stranger.