The arms, perhaps, were too long, but the objection was well hidden under a mass of muscle, which, in some movements, swelled and knotted like kinking cords.

Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae.

And altogether there was in the rower's action a certain harmony which, besides addressing itself to the tribune's theory, stimulated both his curiosity and general interest.
Very soon he found himself waiting to catch a view of the man's face in full.

The head was shapely, and balanced upon a neck broad at the base, but of exceeding pliancy and grace.

The features in profile were of Oriental outline, and of that delicacy of expression which has always been thought a sign of blood and sensitive spirit.