A one-eyed desperado could combine a repulsive visage with a chivalrous gentlemanly manner.
Evidence
His face was remarkable. He is a man about forty-five, and must have been strikingly handsome. He has large grey-blue eyes, deeply set, with well-marked eyebrows, a handsome aquiline nose, and a very handsome mouth. His face was smooth shaven except for a dense mustache and imperial. Tawny hair, in thin uncared-for curls, fell from under his hunter’s cap and over his collar. One eye was entirely gone, and the loss made one side of the face repulsive, while the other might have been modeled in marble. “Desperado” was written in large letters all over him. I almost repented of having sought his acquaintance. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 99
Categorization
- FICTION: This sharp juxtaposition of a hardened desperado who is nonetheless a chivalrous, refined gentleman is a strong character seed.
- SHARE: Send to someone into Western Americana or Bird’s travel writing — the portrait of the grizzly-mauled one-eyed desperado is a perfect specimen.
- XREF: connects to: A violent man can retain the manners of a gentleman. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 226
Broader Connections
- A violent man can retain the manners of a gentleman.
#corroborates(0.88) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 226