"During his brief interview with Mr. Fogg Passepartout had been carefully observing him. He appeared to be a man about forty years of age with fine handsome features and a tall well-shaped figure; his hair and whiskers were light his forehead compact and unwrinkled his face rather pale his teeth magnificent. His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action" a quality of those who act rather than talk. Calm and phlegmatic with a clear eye Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas. Seen in the various phases of his daily life he gave the idea of being perfectly well-balanced as exactly regulated as a Leroy chronometer. Phileas Fogg was indeed exactitude personified and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet; for in men as well as in animals the limbs themselves are expressive of the passionss."