He was dressed neatly, and in the fashion, though not like a dandy.

At the first glance he looked round-shouldered and awkward, but yet he was not round-shouldered, and his manner was easy.

He seemed a queer fish, and yet later on we all thought his manners good, and his conversation always to the point.
No one would have said that he was ugly, and yet no one would have liked his face.

His head was elongated at the back, and looked flattened at the sides, so that his face seemed pointed, his forehead was high and narrow, but his features were small; his eyes were keen, his nose was small and sharp, his lips were long and thin.

The expression of his face suggested ill-health, but this was misleading.