Scrupulously honest themselves (his brother Jaroslaw does not even have a bank account) the twins could hardly have been more different from the sleek cronies who populate large parts of the Polish political spectrum.
Her delicately formed ears, her vermilion hands, her little feet, curved and tender as the lotus–bud, glitter with the brilliancy of the loveliest pearls of Ceylon, the most dazzling diamonds of Golconda.
She was glad she had inherited Ellen's slender white hands and tiny feet, and she wished she had Ellen's height, too, but her own height pleased her very well.
And then the handaxe is so pleasing to the eye as well as to the hand, that its hard not to ask if it wasnt to some extent made quite intentionally to be a thing of beauty.