Gigolo by Edna Ferber Chapter 3 Page 33

Greek perfection. It was like a profile chiselled. The left side was another face — the same, and yet not the same. It was as though you saw the left side out of drawing, or blurred, or out of focus. It puzzled you — shocked you. The left side of Aubin’s face had been done over by an army surgeon who, though deft and scientific, had not had a hand expert as that of the Original Sculptor. Then there was Mazzetti, the Roman. He parted his hair on the wrong side, and under the black wing of it was a deep groove into which you could lay a forefinger. A piece of shell had plowed it neatly. The Russian boy who called himself Orloff had the look in his eyes of one who has seen things upon which eyes never should have looked. He smoked constantly and ate, apparently, not at all. Among these there existed a certain unwritten code and certain unwritten signals.