For he indubitably was a person of vast displacement and augmented gross total tonnage; and in that state of blindness which denies us the gift to see ourselves as others see us I never had reckoned myself to be in his class, avoir-dupoisefully speaking.

But as we lined up two abreast alongside the station, with our camp duffel piled about us, the keen-eyed guide, standing slightly to one side, considered our abdominal profiles, and the look he cast at my companion said as plainly as words, "Well, I see you've brought a spare set along with you in case of a puncture." But he did not come right out and say a thing so utterly tactless.

What he did say, in a worried tone, was that he was sorry now he had not fetched along a much more powerful horse for me to ride on.

He had a good big chunky work animal, not fast but very strong in the back, he said, which would have answered my purposes first rate.
I experienced another disillusioning jolt.

Could it be that this practiced woodsman's eye actually appraised me as being as heavy as my mate, or even heavier?
Surely he must be wrong in his judgments.