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He was not romantically , he was much rather obscurely , handsome ; but his physiognomy had an air of requesting your attention , which it rewarded according to the charm you found in blue eyes of remarkable fixedness , the eyes of a complexion other than his own , and a jaw of the somewhat angular mould which is supposed to bespeak resolution . Isabel said to herself that it bespoke resolution to-night ; in spite of which , in half an hour , Caspar Goodwood , who had arrived hopeful as well as resolute , took his way back to his lodging with the feeling of a man defeated . He was not , it may be added , a man weakly to accept defeat . Ralph Touchett was a philosopher , but nevertheless he knocked at his mother 's door -LRB- at a quarter to seven -RRB- with a good deal of eagerness . Even philosophers have their preferences , and it must be admitted that of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the sweetness of filial dependence . His father , as he had often said to himself , was the more motherly ; his mother , on the other hand , was paternal , and even , according to the slang of the day , gubernatorial . She was nevertheless very fond of her only child and had always insisted on his spending three months of the year with her .