But he was not yet quite emancipated from the traditions of his upbringing.

To create a disturbance in a public place, to draw all eyes upon himself, to look a fool, eventually to be turned ignominiously into the street--all this he was within an ace of doing and suffering, but he refrained.

He sat down again quickly, feeling hot and cold with shame, just as he remembered he had been wont to feel when he had committed some gaucherie in his early days in England.
At that moment the light-weight champion from Singapore came out from his dressing-room and entered the ring.

He was of a slighter build than his opponent, but very quick upon his feet.

He was shorter, too.