I took my courage a deux mains and waited.

In a few minutes Mary opened the door, and announced "Dr.Van Helsing".
I rose and bowed, and he came towards me, a man of medium weight, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck.

The poise of the head strikes me at once as indicative of thought and power.

The head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears.

The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens.