The pale scholar absolutely sighed as he thought what an auxiliary to his own scheming mind would have been so tough a frame! But even less in form than face did the man of thews and sinews contrast the man of wile and craft.

Opposite that high forehead, with its massive development of organs, scowled the low front of one to whom thought was unfamiliar,--protuberant, indeed, over the shaggy brows, where phrenologists place the seats of practical perception, strongly marked in some of the brutes, as in the dog, but almost literally void of those higher organs by which we reason and imagine and construct.

But in rich atonement for such deficiency, all the animal reigned triumphant in the immense mass and width of the skull behind.

And as the hair, long before, curled in close rings to the nape of the bull-like neck, you saw before you one of those useful instruments to ambition and fraud which recoil at no danger, comprehend no crime, are not without certain good qualities, under virtuous guidance,--for they have the fidelity, the obedience, the stubborn courage of the animal,--but which, under evil control, turn those very qualities to unsparing evil: bull-dogs to rend the foe, as bull-dogs to defend the master.
For some moments the two men gazed, silently at each other.

At length Dalibard said, with an air of calm superiority,-- "My friend, it is time that I should be presented to the chiefs of your party!" "Chiefs, par tous les diables!" growled the other; "we Chouans are all chiefs, when it comes to blows.