not very masculine, comeliness. He had quite black hair, which he wore plastered evenly rearwards from his forehead, to remind the observer, with its fine polish and its longitudinal corrugations, of the back of a slug, and to develop at last into a thick mane which just cleared the collar of his coat. His eyes were large and lustrous, and in the socket of the left one he carried habitually a monocle rimmed with black bone. His nose was straight and slender, his lips were thin but beautifully fashioned, his teeth were splendid, and his chin was magnificent. He was tall and slight—the manly Archdeacon could have broken him with one hand—and he had a fluting voice and a bleating laugh, and long, delicate, exquisitely manicured fingers; and he was always dressed very carefully and very becomingly. As a ball-room dancer he was without his
