Der Superintendent war ein schmächtiger Mann von fünfunddreißig Jahren, mit sandgelbem Ziegenbart und kurzgeschorenem sandgelbem Haar. Er trug einen steifen Stehkragen, dessen oberer Rand seine Ohren streifte und dessen scharfe Ecken bis zu den Mundwinkeln vorsprangen -- eine Planke, die ihn zwang, den Kopf stets vorzustrecken und den ganzen Körper zu drehen, wenn er zur Seite blicken wollte. Sein Kinn war in eine riesige Krawatte gezwängt, die so breit und lang war, wie eine Banknote und spitze Enden hatte.
This superintendent was a slim creature of thirty-five, with a sandy goatee and short sandy hair; he wore a stiff standing-collar whose upper edge almost reached his ears and whose sharp points curved forward abreast the corners of his mouth--a fence that compelled a straight lookout ahead, and a turning of the whole body when a side view was required; his chin was propped on a spreading cravat which was as broad and as long as a bank-note, and had fringed ends; his boot toes were turned sharply up, in the fashion of the day, like sleigh-runners--an effect patiently and laboriously produced by the young men by sitting with their toes pressed against a wall for hours together.