His beard was very black, and he wore it in a pointed shape.

His eyes were small and deep-set, but full of intelligence.

He had all the manner and appearance of a man of gentle birth, but there was something more; an indescribable, undefinable air that hung about him.

Many Russians have it, and the French have embodied the idea it conveys in their proverb that if you scratch a Russian you will find the Tartar.

It is rather a trait of Orientalism in the blood, and it is to be noticed as much in Servians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, and even Hungarians, as in Russians.