Besides, he is always very well dressed, though he has no affectations.

He does not wear his hair plastered into a love-lock on his forehead, like some of our dandies, nor is he eternally pulling a pair of monstrous white cuffs over his hands.
Everything is very neat about him and very quiet, so that you would hardly think he was an artist after all; and he talks but little, though he can talk very well when he likes, for he has not forgotten his Dante nor his Leopardi.

De Pretis says the reason he sings so well is because he has a mouth like the slit in an organ pipe, as wide as a letter-box at the post-office.

But I think he has succeeded because he has great square jaws like Napoleon.

People like that always succeed.
My jaw is small, and my chin is pointed under my beard--but then, with the beard, no one can see it.