He was blond, and incessant exposure to the sun had, instead of tanning him brown, merely heightened the colour of his cheeks.

His yellow hair had a tendency to curl in a forward direction, just in front of the ears.
Beside him, Presley made the sharpest of contrasts.

Presley seemed to have come of a mixed origin; appeared to have a nature more composite, a temperament more complex.

Unlike Harran Derrick, he seemed more of a character than a type.

The sun had browned his face till it was almost swarthy.