A stranger to the pursuits represented might have thought that the general disorder and encumberment indicated great activity, but the experienced eye perceived at once that no methodical work was here in progress.
Mineralogy, botany, biology, physics, and probably many other sciences, were suggested by the specimens and apparatus that lay confusedly on tables, shelves, or floor.
Moxey looked very slim and elegant in his evening costume.

When he touched any object, his long, translucent fingers seemed soft and sensitive as a girl's.

He stepped with peculiar lightness, and the harmonious notes of his voice were in keeping with these other characteristics.

Ten years had developed in him that graceful languor which at four-and-twenty was only beginning to get mastery over the energies of a well-built frame.
'This stuff here,' he said, pointing to an open box full of mud, 'is silt from down the Thames.

It's positively loaded with _diatomaceoe_,--you remember our talking about them when you were last here?
I am working at the fabric of the valves.