There are no twists and turns in him.

Once learn the key, and it discloses everything, like an open sesame.

He has a gigantic intellect, a burning thirst for knowledge; one love, one hobby--science; and no moral instincts.

He goes straight for his ends; and whatever comes in his way," she dug her little heel in the brown soil, "he tramples on it as ruthlessly as a child will trample on a worm or a beetle." "And yet," I said, "he is so great." "Yes, great, I grant you; but the easiest character to unravel that I have ever met.

It is calm, austere, unbending, yet not in the least degree complex.