His eyes were almost unnaturally bright and piercing; his cheek-bones were high and prominent; and his jaws were so long and lank, that an observer would have supposed that he was drawing the flesh of his face in, for a moment, by some contraction of the muscles, if his half-opened mouth and immovable expression had not announced that it was his ordinary appearance.
A szeme szinte természetellenesen csillogott s nagyon szúrós nézése volt; a két pofacsontja hegyesen kiállt; hosszú, sovány álláról pedig azt hihette volna az ember, hogy éppen előremereszti, megfeszítve az arcizmait, ha a félig nyitott szája és a közönyös arc­kifejezése el nem árulja, hogy ez a rendes, hétköznapi ábrázata.