"Happy man!" But the note seemed to Rowland to be struck rather at random, for he perceived no echo of it in the boyish garrulity of his later talk.
Hudson was a tall, slender young fellow, with a singularly mobile and intelligent face.

Rowland was struck at first only with its responsive vivacity, but in a short time he perceived it was remarkably handsome.
The features were admirably chiseled and finished, and a frank smile played over them as gracefully as a breeze among flowers.

The fault of the young man's whole structure was an excessive want of breadth.

The forehead, though it was high and rounded, was narrow; the jaw and the shoulders were narrow; and the result was an air of insufficient physical substance.

But Mallet afterwards learned that this fair, slim youth could draw indefinitely upon a mysterious fund of nervous force, which outlasted and outwearied the endurance of many a sturdier temperament.