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I read the "Fenimore Cooper’s Beast ". I came to this phrase: "...in the light between the leaves looked an unusually nice young female face, and so close that the Beast could reach him with a beast."
I have only one question: why?! to

The author gives the reader information about the distance. Not to write, "to the face was 5 meters 50 centimeters."

Do not look for meaning where it is not.