The vindictive caricatures of the God Pan, executed by priests of the later religion burning to hunt him out of worship in the semblance of the hairy, hoofy, snouty Evil One, were not more loathsome.

She sank on a sofa.

That the man?
Oh! Jew, and fifty times over Jew! nothing but Jew! The three stepped into the long saloon, and she saw how veritably magnificent was the first whom she had noticed.
She sat at her lamb's-wool work in the little ivory frame, feeding on the contrast.

This man's face was the born orator's, with the light-giving eyes, the forward nose, the animated mouth, all stamped for speechfulness and enterprise, of Cicero's rival in the forum before he took the headship of armies and marched to empire.
The gifts of speech, enterprise, decision, were marked on his features and his bearing, but with a fine air of lordly mildness.

Alas, he could not be other than Christian, so glorious was he in build! One could vision an eagle swooping to his helm by divine election.