The Professor and His Daughters, Vol. 1 of 3

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Excerpt from The Professor and His Daughters, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelThe Professor (as it is proposed to call him in the following pages) was in person a tall, gaunt man, though, owing to his having contracted a habit of stooping, he did not look his height. He was not a well-made man - no sculptor would have dreamed of taking him as a model for an Adonis or an Apollo, for his chest was insufficiently developed, and his arms and legs were abnormally long, though probably these defects seemed greater than they really were from the roundness of his back and shoulders.His face, however, made up for the want of grace in his limbs. The features were regular and full of intellectual power: the forehead high, with deep lines traversing it, the eyes dim and weak from intense study, and the mouth and chin well-shaped, though to a physiognomist they would have be tokened some irresolution of character. About the whole there was, curiously enough in the case of a man whose life had been eminently even and uneventful, an air of weariness - almost sadness that evoked a feeling of pitiful interest in the observer.Well acquainted as he was with the history of the ancient world, he was as simple as a child in his knowledge of the ways of the world in which he lived. He could argue by the hour on any point connected with Greek or Roman history, giving his Opinions with a directness and a bold ness that arose from a perfect acquaintance with his subject, while the most feminine mind could pose him on any topic of interest that was then stirring the public mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.