At that time, when almost all well-dressed men were clean-shaven, Arnheim continued to wear, just as he had done before, a small, pointed beard and a short clipped moustache: this small, extraneous and yet familiar feeling on his face, whenever he talked all too self-obviously in the presence of eager listeners, reminded him, for reasons that were not clear even to him, but in a way that was agreeable, of his money.