He bowed and took his leave.

M.de Chauxville of the French Embassy was watching every movement, every change of expression, from across the room.
In evening dress the man whom we last saw on the platform of the railway station at Tver did not look so unmistakably English.

It was more evident that he had inherited certain characteristics from his Russian mother--notably, his great height, a physical advantage enjoyed by many aristocratic Russian families.

His hair was fair and inclined to curl, and there the foreign suggestion suddenly ceased.

His face had the quiet concentration, the unobtrusive self-absorption which one sees more strongly marked in English faces than in any others.