With all this he had attained and held with increasing authority the first position in a country where the arts of the politician are not neglected.

All of which, without expecting the impossible, seemed a fine combination of qualities for the matter in hand.
The first impression of Mr.Wilson at close quarters was to impair some but not all of these illusions.

His head and features were finely cut and exactly like his photographs, and the muscles of his neck and the carriage of his head were distinguished.

But, like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated; and his hands, though capable and fairly strong, were wanting in sensitiveness and finesse.

The first glance at the President suggested not only that, whatever else he might be, his temperament was not primarily that of the student or the scholar, but that he had not much even of that culture of the world which marks M.Clemenceau and Mr.Balfour as exquisitely cultivated gentlemen of their class and generation.