His countenance, by daylight, had a sort of amiably saturnine cast; he had a very large thin nose, and looked like a Spanish picture.

He appeared to think dueling a very perfect arrangement, provided, if one should get hit, one could promptly see the priest.

He seemed to take a great satisfaction in Valentin's interview with the cure, and yet his conversation did not at all indicate a sanctimonious habit of mind.

M.Ledoux had evidently a high sense of the becoming, and was prepared to be urbane and tasteful on all points.

He was always furnished with a smile (which pushed his mustache up under his nose) and an explanation.