Ebenai

The Handsome Captain.

“He is indeed tall and strong, as if his background really could be a military one, and at this point as I cannot place his position in the artist’s household I think of him as the Handsome Captain. He may not be my fearsome sergeant but he could be someone’s. He must be fifty. Older. He is quite bald, the skin of his scalp sun-kissed, and recently shaven though he has missed whiskers that glitter silver in the morning light. But he is handsome nonetheless, I see. I downplay him. His eyes have a piercing expression, firing darts of curiosity across we assembled men from pools of a lively brown. His jaw is…

“His jaw is many things which when connected to a fine mouth - and generous lips and a sharply determined nose and eyebrows that rise and rise further with curiosity and verve - form themselves into a thing I have no doubts in calling more than handsome.”