His muscular development was more qualitative than quantitative, and it is the qualitative development which gives rise to beauty of form.

A giant need not be proportioned in the mould; nor a thew be symmetrical to be massive.
And finally,--none the less necessary but still finally,--Vance Corliss was neither spiritually dead nor decadent.

He affected her as fresh and wholesome and strong, as reared above the soil but not scorning the soil.

Of course, none of this she reasoned out otherwise than by subconscious processes.

Her conclusions were feelings, not thoughts.
Though they quarrelled and disagreed on innumerable things, deep down, underlying all, there was a permanent unity.