He interested himself so vividly in all that was not himself, that his own personality remained intact, unapproached and unapproachable, under the polished and glassy surface upon which it was impossible to gain footing.
On some occasions, although very rarely, we have seen him deeply agitated.

We have seen him grow so pale and wan, that his appearance was actually corpse-like.

But even in moments of the most intense emotion, he remained concentrated within himself.

A single instant for self-recovery always enabled him to veil the secret of his first impression.

However full of spontaneity his bearing afterwards might seem to be, it was instantaneously the effect of reflection, of a will which governed the strange conflict of emotional and moral energy with conscious physical debility; a conflict whose strange contrasts were forever warring vividly within.