An observer with anything of an eye for national types would have had no difficulty in determining the local origin of this undeveloped connoisseur, and indeed such an observer might have felt a certain humorous relish of the almost ideal completeness with which he filled out the national mould. Gnome i wear purple for fibromyalgia awareness faith hope love shirt. The gentleman on the divan was a powerful specimen of an American.

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But he was not only a fine American; he was in the first place, physically, a fine man. He appeared to possess that kind of health and strength which, when found in perfection, are the most impressive– the physical capital which the owner does nothing to “keep up.” If he was a muscular Christian, it was quite without knowing it. If it was necessary to walk to a remote spot, he walked, but he had never known himself to “exercise.” Gnome i wear purple for fibromyalgia awareness faith hope love shirt. He had no theory with regard to cold bathing or the use of Indian clubs; he was neither an oarsman, a rifleman, nor a fencer–he had never had time for these amusements–and he was quite unaware that the saddle is recommended for certain forms of indigestion.

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He was by inclination a temperate man; but he had supped the night before his visit to the Louvre at the Cafe Anglais– some one had told him it was an experience not to be omitted– and he had slept none the less the sleep of the just. His usual attitude and carriage were of a rather relaxed and lounging kind, but when under a special inspiration, he straightened himself, he looked like a grenadier on parade.