With his permanently tousled hair, dark eyebrows and pupils of black or gold ("It's the phosphorescence, " he sort-of explains), Pattinson comes in somewhere between Prince William and one of the more manly Greek gods.

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Directly below Fanny and Constance lived somebody who took flash photographs from his or her balcony, the bright quiet blast of light below them every now and then like a spill of phosphorescence, fairy dust, at their feet.

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