They are very large, brilliant, and sparkling, and he rolls them in a manner most unusual.

While he is always the king and the soldier, he can be genial and charming.

One might expect a man in his position to be blase, but that, most of all, is what he is not.

He is like a boy in his vitality and vividness, and he has a great and persistent intellectual curiosity.

It is this, I think, which used to cause him to be compared with Colonel Roosevelt.