Mit dieser Ankündigung erhob er sich von seinem Stuhl, ging an das Feuer und lehnte den Arm auf den Kaminsims. In dieser Stellung traten seine Figur und sein Gesicht besonders deutlich hervor; ebenso die ungewöhnliche Breite seiner Schultern, welche zu seiner Höhe in gar keinem Verhältnis stand.
With this announcement he rose from his chair, and stood, leaning his arm on the marble mantelpiece: in that attitude his shape was seen plainly as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest, disproportionate almost to his length of limb.