the clear , blue eyes of the portrait were undiminished with age , and the tanned face showed no additional lines than it had done when garnet had first examined it , more than forty years before ; there was not even a double chin , not even when viewed from this most unflattering of angles , to reveal the passing of the decades : jacob wendelson , it would appear , was equally adept at cheating time , as he had been at cheating his friends and family .