There was, also, not a little of ease and agility, together with a rude gracefulness in his action, the result equally of the well-combined organization of his animal man and of the hardy habits of his woodland life.

His appearance was youthful, and the passing glance would perhaps have rated him at little more than six or seven-and-twenty.

His broad, full chest, heaving strongly with a consciousness of might--together with the generally athletic muscularity of his whole person--indicated correctly the possession of prodigious strength.

His face was finely southern.

His features were frank and fearless--moderately intelligent, and well marked--the _tout ensemble_ showing an active vitality, strong, and usually just feelings, and a good-natured freedom of character, which enlisted confidence, and seemed likely to acknowledge few restraints of a merely conventional kind.