Somebody had said this, and he was inclined to think that it was true.

Anyway, Duviquet, who flattered himself with having made the best portraits of the century, knew that celebrated men seldom resemble the ideas one forms of them.
M.Daniel Salomon observed that the fine mask about which Duviquet talked, the plaster cast taken from the inanimate face of the Emperor, and brought to Europe by Dr.Antommarchi, had been moulded in bronze and sold by subscription for the first time in 1833, under Louis Philippe, and had then inspired surprise and mistrust.

People suspected the Italian chemist, who was a sort of buffoon, always talkative and famished, of having tried to make fun of people.

Disciples of Dr.Gall, whose system was then in favor, regarded the mask as suspicious.

They did not find in it the bumps of genius; and the forehead, examined in accordance with the master's theories, presented nothing remarkable in its formation.
"Precisely," said Princess Seniavine.