Chapter XXVIII
THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
There was a strange and ominous murmur of voices, a shuffling of feet in the
gallery, a silence, which was like the silence before a storm. He righted a chair and sat in
it, his face in his hands. He waved to her. The cheek-bones
were prominent: the nose slightly depressed, with rather wide nostrils; the chin
narrow, but well-formed; the forehead broad and lofty; and he possessed such an
extraordinary flexibility of muscle in this region, that he could elevate his eyebrows at pleasure up to the very verge of his sleek and shining black hair, which,
being closely cropped, to admit of his occasionally wearing a wig, gave a
singular bullet-shape to his head. The vast
area in front of Westminster Hall was thronged with people, and it was only by a
vigorous application of their staves that the constables could force a passage for
the vehicle.
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