I have seen your name, Sir, mentioned more than once, to the honour of our university, in athletic events." At this point Mr.
Rae's face broke into a smile.
An amazing smile was Mr.Rae's; amazing both in the suddenness of its appearing and in the suddenness of its vanishing.

Upon a face of supernatural gravity, without warning, without beginning, the smile, broad, full and effulgent, was instantaneously present.

Then equally without warning and without fading the smile ceased to be.

Under its effulgence the observer unfamiliar with Mr.Rae's smile was moved, to a responsive geniality of expression, but in the full tide of this emotion he found himself suddenly regarding a face of such preternatural gravity as rebuked the very possibility or suggestion of geniality.

Before the smile Mr.Rae's face was like a house, with the shutters up and the family plunged in gloom.