Mrs Gildea surveyed him with interested admiration.
A big man--large-limbed, bony--a typical Scotcher in that--with thin flanks, a well-set up back and massive shoulders.

His face was browny-red all over except where the skin ran white under the hair and there was a ruddier ring round the upper part of the throat.

His nose was thin between the eyes, broadening lower, high-bridged and with high cut nostrils, showing the sensitive red when he was enraged--as not infrequently happened.

He had large honest blue eyes, intensely blue, of the fiery description with a trick of dropping the lids when he was in doubt or consideration.

They were expressive eyes, as a rule keen and hard, but they could soften unexpectedly under the influence of emotion.