He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self- indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite- hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too--not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling.
Mindenesetre ebéd utáni jó hangulatban volt; közlékenyebb és derűsebb, mint rendesen, nem olyan mord és fagyos, amilyen reggelenként szokott lenni. Gránitba vésett vonásai még így is kemények voltak, ahogy fejét a dagadó selyemvánkoson nyugtatta, de nagy, sötét szemének tekintete - mert nagy, sötét szeme volt - mintha kissé ellágyult volna.