From Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale"
CHAPTER 5
(Of Vesper Lynd)
Bond felt her presence strongly. While he and Mathis talked, he turned from time to time towards her, politely including her in the conversation, but adding up the impressions recorded by each glance.
Her skin was lightly sun-tanned and bore no trace of makeup except on her mouth, which was wide and sensual. Her bare arms and hands had a quality of repose, and the general impression of restraint in her appearance and movements was carried even to her fingernails, which were unpainted and cut short. Round her neck she wore a plain gold chain of wide flat links, and on the fourth finger of the right hand, a broad topaz ring. Her medium length dress was of grey soie sauvage with a square-cut bodice, lasciviously tight across her fine breasts. the skirt was closely pleated and flowered down from a narrow but not a thin waist. She wore a three-inch, hand stitched black belt. A hand-stitched black sabretache rested on the chair beside her, together with a wide cartwheel hat of gold straw, its crown encircled by a thin black velvet ribbon which tied at the back in a short bow. Her shoes were square-toed of plain black leather.
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