There was a look in his eyes that was what I would call deadly.

It was only a flash and then, very courteously, putting me in the wrong, of course, he remarked that he was 'almost ninekleen'; and it struck me from his look and the way he said it that it was a lie.

If he truly was the average age of the rest of the class there was nothing for him to be angry about.

Then I did take a deliberate survey.

From the settled solidity of his frame and the shape of his hands and the skin of his face and the set of his eyes in his head, I couldn't see that much youth.