I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that, in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference, and, even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.
Quasi tutti lo avrebbero giudicato brutto, ma aveva nel portamento tanta fierezza naturale, tanta sicurezza nelle maniere, pareva curarsi tanto poco della mancanza di bellezza ed esser così intimamente convinto che le sue qualità compensavano largamente un'attrattiva tutta esteriore, che, guardandolo, si divideva la sua indifferenza o quasi quasi anche la sua convinzione.