Excerpt from The Challenge In person he was tall, lubberly, and sprawling; when he placed his hands in his pockets he forced them out wards till the cloth strained; when he collapsed in a chair he made it creak with the pressures and shovings of his huge back; when he thrust out his long legs he rubbed and jostled his shoes together as though the polish was a false quantity which annoyed him. The colour of his skin was a tone deeper than red-brick; the troubled iris of his eyes had the appearance of heat; the profile was handsome and commanding. With more energy in his face he would have suggested a soldier; with less, he might have passed for a poet.

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