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The Sea-Hawk
by Rafael Sabatini

NOTE
Lord Henry Goade, who had, as we shall see, some personal
acquaintance with Sir Oliver Tressilian, tells us quite bluntly that he
was ill-favoured. But then his lordship is addicted to harsh judgments
and his perceptions are not always normal. He says, for instance, of
Anne of Cleves, that she was the "ugliest woman that ever I saw." As
far as we can glean from his own voluminous writings it would seem to
be extremely doubtful whether he ever saw Anne of Cleves at all, and
we suspect him here of being no more than a slavish echo of the
common voice, which attributed Cromwell's downfall to the ugliness of
this bride he procured for his Bluebeard master. To the common voice
from the brush of Holbein, which permits us to form our own opinions
and shows us a lady who is certainly very far from deserving his
lordship's harsh stricture. Similarly, I like to believe that Lord Henry
was wrong in his pronouncement upon Sir Oliver, and I am encouraged
in this belief by the pen-portrait which he himself appends to it. "He
was," he says, "a tall, powerful fellow of a good shape, if we except
that his arms were too long and that his feet and hands were of an

uncomely bigness. In face he was swarthy, with black hair and a black
forked beard; his nose was big and very high in the bridge, and his eyes
sunk deep under beetling eyebrows were very pale-coloured and very
cruel and sinister. He had--and this I have ever remarked to be the sign
of great virility in a man--a big, deep, rough voice, better suited to, and
no doubt oftener employed in, quarter-deck oaths and foulnesses than
the worship of his Maker."
Thus my Lord Henry Goade, and you observe