From Ian Fleming's "Moonraker"
CHAPTER 11
(Of Gala Brand, first meeting.)
She was far more attractive than her photograph had suggested and it was difficult to see traces of the severe competence of a policewoman in the seductive girl beside him. There was authority in the definite line of the profile, but the long black eyelashes over the dark blue eyes and the rather wide mouth might have been painted by Marie Laurencin. 
Yet the lips were too full for Laurencin and the dark brown hair that curved inwards as the base of the neck was of a different fashion, There was a hint of northern blood in the high cheek-bones and in the very slight upward slant of the eyes, but the warmth of her sin was entirely English. There was to much poise and authority n her gestures and in the carriage of her head for her to be a very convincing portrait of a secretary. In fact, she seem almost a member of Drax's team and Bond noticed that the men listened with attention as she answered Drax's questions.
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