“Don’t call me ‘my lord,’” he told her with a mixture of gentleness and gravity, “unless you mean it. “That is the nicest compliment you could have paid me, my lord.” She saw that he was perfectly serious, and she sobered, “Thank you,” she said quietly. “Elizabeth,” he said dryly, “I am not such a fool that I would have let a beautiful face alone drive me to madness, or to asking you to marry me, or even to extremes of sexual desire.” Her happy laughter drifted around the room and reminded him of music. I was so surprised, it took a considerable amount of will to keep from dropping the glass I was holding.” And then later that night I looked up and saw you walking down the staircase. I could tell that yours was a very nice face, with the requisite features in the right places, and I could also tell that your other-feminine assets-were definitely in all the right places, but that was all I could see. “Yes, but I was standing near a torch lamp, while you perversely remained in the shadows. I could see yours well enough, even though night had fallen.” “I see that now,” he teased, then he said more solemnly, “but as it happens it was not your face which I found so beguiling when we met in the garden, because,” he added when she looked unconvinced, “I couldn’t see it.” “I can’t imagine why,” he said, grinning down at what was, in his opinion-in anyone’s opinion-a heartbreakingly beautiful face belonging to a young woman who was sprawled across his chest looking like an innocent golden goddess. People have the most extraordinary reaction to my face,” she explained with a disgusted sigh. “I thought you would say it was my face you noticed first. Her slim shoulders lifted in an embarrassed shrug. He nodded, but he was studying her reaction with curiosity. “Truly?” she asked with unhidden pleasure. She’d expected him to say something about her looks, not her conversation or her mind. “I’d say,” he thoughtfully replied, “I knew it when you took sympathy on Galileo.” “How soon did my qualities become apparent?” She chuckled, thinking his words were teasing flattery. “I was thinking how wise I must be to have known within minutes of meeting you that you were wonderful.” He tipped his chin down so that he could better see her and brushed a stray lock of golden hair off her cheek. “What are you thinking about?” she asked. However, when the details make quality suffer for the sake of simplicity - I’m Out! In this case, I’m out.“That reminded him of how thrifty she was, and he promptly decided-at least for the moment-that her thriftiness was one of her most endearingly amusing qualities. As I go back to the site, I see the emphasis on simplicity (download, done! Basically). Again, upon contacting them directly, I’m left unclear as to how much of these details I was expected to address/verify. Understandable, yet in this case - unacceptable. I was told there is an “automatic” cropping of photos to fit their designed aspect ratio. The panel was cropped such that it made my entire premise for ordering ruined. Further, if my first quality complaint could be deemed ‘subjective’, my second cannot. I’m not clear if the site downloads the same resolution, and they did not address this part of my concern when I contacted them directly. Specifically, I thought the entire picture looked ‘washed out’ and lacked depth - almost grainy (in my mind looked like a very low resolution picture, but the one I sent was not).
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