He was so very tall and slender as to suggest forcible elongation.

He carried his head with a deprecatory, sidewise air as if in accordance with his wife's picture hat, and yet Mr.Wilbur Edes, out of Fairbridge and in his law office on Broadway, was a man among men.

He was an exception to the personal esteem which usually expanded a male citizen of Fairbridge, but he was the one and only husband of Mrs.Wilbur Edes, and there was not room at such an apex as she occupied for more than one.

Tall as Wilbur Edes was, he was overshadowed by that immaculate blond pompadour and that plumed picture hat.

He was a prime favourite in Fairbridge society; he was liked and admired, but his radiance was reflected, and he was satisfied that it should be so.