My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,--all energy, decision, will,--were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me,--that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his.
El moreno y cuadrado rostro de Rochester, sus espesas cejas, sus penetrantes ojos, sus rudas facciones, su boca voluntariosa, no eran bellos, según los cánones de la estética, pero para mí eran más que bellos: eran interesantes y estaban llenos de una sugestión que me dominaba.