He never shirks a duty and never forgets a kindness.

Queer combination when you think of it, Peter.
What he will make of himself is another matter." Peter drew his body back and sent his thoughts out on an investigating tour.

He was wondering what effect the influence of a young man like Minott would have on a young man like Breen.
The waiters at this point brought in huge trays holding bowls of tobacco and long white clay pipes, followed by even larger trays bearing coffee in little cups.

Morris waited a moment and then rapped for order.
Instantly a hush fell upon the noisy room; plates and glasses were pushed back so as to give the men elbow room; pipes were hurriedly lighted, and each guest turned his chair so as to face the Chief, who was now on his feet.
As he stood erect, one hand behind his back, the other stretched toward the table in his appeal for silence, I thought for the hundredth time how kind his fifty years had been to him; how tightly knit his figure; how well his clothes became him.

A handsome, well-groomed man at all times and in any costume--but never so handsome or so well groomed as in evening dress.