One of those men…
One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anti-climax.
Two…
Two shining arrogant eyes…a cruel body.
That’s what I get…
That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking specimen
There was something…
There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency…was not enough to him any more
…assumption
Supercilious assumption
In his alert…
In his alert, aggressive way, his hands out a little from his body as if to fight off interference.