Having completed his survey he turned slowly upon Haw-Haw Langley and lowered his eyebrows to stare.
So doing, the light for the first time struck full upon his face.
Haw-Haw Langley bit his thin lips and his eyes widened almost to the normal.
For the ugliness of Mac Strann was that most terrible species of ugliness--not disfigured features but a discord which pervaded the man and came from within him--like a sound.

Feature by feature his face was not ugly.

The mouth was very large, to be sure, and the jaw too heavily square, and the nose needed somewhat greater length and less width for real comeliness.

The eyes were truly fine, being very large and black, though when Mac Strann lowered his bush of brows his eyes were practically reduced to gleams of light in the consequent shadow.

There was a sharp angle in his forehead, the lines of it meeting in the centre and shelving up and down.