Sentence:  He gained friends elsewhere, and finally settled in Darmstadt, where he still found women's hearts susceptible, in spite of his small, weak frame, his great long neck, and his <WSD>calfless</WSD> legs, of which he writes: "And, oh, my calves, they might have done honour to a poodle!" 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Having no or extremely reduced calves.