“Pretty fair — pretty fair. Chin a little lower, please — there, very good. Eyes too high; pray don’t look at the horizon, look at the ground, ten steps in front of you. Ah — that is better, that is very good. Wait, please; you betray too much vigor, too much decision; you want more of a shamble. Look at me, please — this is what I mean.... Now you are getting it; that is the idea — at least, it sort of approaches it.... Yes, that is pretty fair. But! There is a great big something wanting, I don’t quite know what it is.

Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then — your head’s right, speed’s right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right — everything’s right! And yet