She discovered a man, at the window of the Swiss summer-house, watching her.
"When you have done with that drawing," he said quietly, "please let me have it back again." He was tall and thin and dark.

His finely-shaped intelligent face--hidden, as to the lower part of it, by a curly black beard--would have been absolutely handsome, even in the eyes of a schoolgirl, but for the deep furrows that marked it prematurely between the eyebrows, and at the sides of the mouth.

In the same way, an underlying mockery impaired the attraction of his otherwise refined and gentle manner.

Among his fellow-creatures, children and dogs were the only critics who appreciated his merits without discovering the defects which lessened the favorable appreciation of him by men and women.

He dressed neatly, but his morning coat was badly made, and his picturesque felt hat was too old.