His charm could not be denied.

His frankness, the quickness of his thought, his intellectual power, his vitality, his capacity for work, the tirelessness of his energies, were manifested in his speech, his movements, the clear and rapid glances of his eyes.
At the same time I found angles to him.

I sensed a ruthlessness in him.
I saw him as a fearless and sleepless antagonist, but always open and fair.

There was only once when his nature broke ground and revealed something of his inner self, something of a sensitiveness which suffers for subtler things and penetrates to finer understandings.

This was when he was telling me of the effect of his uncle's broken promise to educate him.