We may as well here
describe him, as he appears to us; for at this period the youth was
still insensible--unconscious of his deliverance as he was of his
deliverer.
Mark Forrester was a stout, strongly-built, yet active person, some six
feet in height, square and broad-shouldered--exhibiting an outline,
wanting, perhaps, in some of the more rounded graces of form, yet at the
same time far from symmetrical deficiency. There was, also, not a little
of ease and agility, together with a rude gracefulness in his action,
the result equally of the well-combined organization of his animal man
and of the hardy habits of his woodland life. His appearance was
youthful, and the passing glance would perhaps have rated him at little
more than six or seven-and-twenty. His broad, full chest, heaving
strongly with a consciousness of might--together with the generally
athletic muscularity of his whole person--indicated correctly the
possession of prodigious strength. His face was finely southern.
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