Had it been allowed to grow, it would almost have hung in ringlets; but it was worn very short, as though its owner were jealous even of the curl.

Anton Trendellsohn was decidedly a handsome man; but his eyes were somewhat too close together in his face, and the bridge of his aquiline nose was not sharply cut, as is mostly the case with such a nose on a Christian face.

The olive oval face was without doubt the face of a Jew, and the mouth was greedy, and the teeth were perfect and bright, and the movement of the man's body was the movement of a Jew.
This is not the typical description of the romantic hero of a Victorian novel.

Even so, Trollope's description of Anton is less derogatory than his description of Ezekiel Brehgert, a character in a later novel, _The Way We Live Now_: He was a fat, greasy man, good-looking in a certain degree, about fifty, with hair dyed black, and beard and moustache dyed a dark purple colour.

The charm of his face consisted in a pair of very bright black eyes, which were, however, set too near together in his face for the general delight of Christians.