And to all except the very few who knew him well he certainly did appear to be--not an individual at all--but only an indistinguished unit of a vast army.
His obvious good looks were like the good looks of others.

He looked well bred, but to look that is as common in a certain class as it is rare in another.

He had the spare, wiry figure, tall and lightly built, square in the shoulders, and thin in the flank; he had the clear weather-beaten complexion, the clean, nervous, capable hand, and the self-effacing manner, which we associate with myriads of well-born, machine-trained, perfectly groomed, expensively educated, uneducated Englishmen.

Our public schools turn them out by the thousand.

The "lost legion" is made up of them.