This was a look his daughter had also.

But in her the gesture was tempered by the free-playing curves of a beautiful throat and the forward thrust of a rounded chin--advantages not possessed by the angular anatomy and bony jaw of the famous doctor of law.
Master Gerard, clad in a long robe of black velvet from head to heel, sat bending his fingers gracefully together and looking at me.

His head was thrown back, I have said, and the lights of the colored windows striking on his gray hair and black skull-cap, caused him to look much more like some lean ascetic ecclesiastic and prince of the church than the chief lawyer of the ancient capital of the Wolfmark.
"You were present at this child's play yester-eve in the hostel of the White Swan ?" he asked, boring into me with his uncomfortable, triangular eyes.
"Aye, truly," said I, "and much they made of me!" For since my father said that I was accounted a hero in this house, I had determined not to hide away my deeds in my leathern scrip.

I had had enough practice in playing at modesty in the Tower of the Red Axe.
Master Gerard shook his shoulders as though he would have made me believe that he laughed.
"You were over many for thorn, I hear great silly fellows--children playing with fire yet afraid to burn themselves.

Why, since ten this morning I have had them all here--stout burgomeister's sons, slim scions of the Burghershaft, moist-eyed corporation children, each more anxious than another to prove that he had nothing to do with any treason.