The second was shorter and rather stout, also much younger.

He had a genial, smiling face, small, beady-black eyes, and was clean-shaven.

They were very light in colour; indeed I have seen Italians who are much darker; and there was about their whole aspect a certain air of power.
Instantly I remembered the story that Miss Holmes had told me at dinner and looked at her covertly, to see that she had turned quite pale and was trembling a little.

I do not think that anyone else noticed this, however, as all were staring at the strangers.

Moreover she recovered herself in a moment, and, catching my eye, laid her finger on her lips in token of silence.
The men were clothed in thick, fur-lined cloaks, which they took off and, folding them neatly, laid upon the floor, standing revealed in robes of a beautiful whiteness and in large plain turbans, also white.
"High-class Somali Arabs," thought I to myself, noting the while that as they arranged the robes they were taking in every one of us with their quick eyes.