My colouring and hair were dark, and I had soft and rather large brown eyes.

The best part of my face was my forehead, which was ample, and the worst my mouth, which was somewhat weak.

I do not think, however, that any one would have guessed by looking at me as I then appeared at the age of seven and twenty, that I was an exceedingly hard-working man with extraordinary powers of observation and a really retentive memory.
At any rate, I am sure that it was not these qualities which recommended me to Emma Becker, nor, whatever we may have felt under the influences of Orizaba, was it any spiritual affinity.

Doctors, I fear, are not great believers in spiritual affinities; they know that such emotions can be accounted for in other ways.

Probably Emma was attracted to me because I was dark, and I to her because she was fair.