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From the high, barred window of a house in the Forest of Arles, a pair of brown eyes looked down pitifully into Pat Tyrrell's very blue eyes. He was quite sure the eyes were brown, though the girl stood at a considerable height above him. The window was in the gable end of a house, which else was hidden from the grassy forest road by high walls. The place looked like a convent or a prison.
Pat Tyrrell, who was a romantic young man, felt as though drawn upward by the spell of those brown eyes. He stood staring up, his straw hat in his hands, his curly fair hair shining in the sun. The girl in the window had a curious idea that he looked as though he wore a halo. At Harrow they had given Pat Tyrrell the nickname of the Seraph. He had certainly a shining look; such a clear bright look that he always stood out in any assemblage of young men.