He stood with his back to the fire, which set off the herculean breadth of his shoulders.

His face was dark and expressive; his under jaw squarely formed, and remarkably heavy.

I was struck with his remarkable likeness to a Gorilla.
As he absently tied the poker into hard knots with his nervous fingers, I watched him with some interest.

Suddenly he turned toward me:-- "Do you think I'm handsome, young woman ?" "Not classically beautiful," I returned calmly; "but you have, if I may so express myself, an abstract manliness,--a sincere and wholesome barbarity which, involving as it does the naturalness--" But I stopped, for he yawned at that moment,--an action which singularly developed the immense breadth of his lower jaw,--and I saw he had forgotten me.
Presently he turned to the housekeeper:-- "Leave us." The old woman withdrew with a courtesy.
Mr.Rawjester deliberately turned his back upon me and remained silent for twenty minutes.

I drew my shawl the more closely around my shoulders and closed my eyes.
"You are the governess ?" at length he said.
"I am, sir." "A creature who teaches geography, arithmetic, and the use of the globes--ha!--a wretched remnant of femininity,--a skimp pattern of girlhood with a premature flavor of tea-leaves and morality.