The dreamy look in his small blue eyes was rather belied by the hardness of his thin-lipped mouth, and by the pugnacious push of his jaw.

The eyes and the dome-like forehead hinted that brain without much originality; but the lower part of this contradictory countenance might have belonged to a prize-fighter.

Nevertheless, Braddock's plumpness did away to a considerable extent with his aggressive look.

It was certainly latent, but only came to the surface when he fought with a brother savant over some tomb-dweller from Thebes.

In the soft lamplight he looked like a fighting cherub, and it was a pity--in the interests of art--that the hairless pink and white face did not surmount a pair of wings rather than a rusty and ill-fitting dress suit.
"He's nane sa dafty as he looks," thought Mrs.Jasher, who was Scotch, although she claimed to be cosmopolitan.