His face was clean-shaven save for a small straw-colored moustache, which showed up almost white against the bronze of his face.
He was more of an athlete than a student, and this was one reason why Juliet was fond of him.

She had seen so much of literary circles that she always vowed she would marry a man who never opened a book.
Cuthbert nearly fulfilled this requirement, as he read little, save novels and newspapers.

He was well known in sporting circles, and having a good private income, owned race-horses.

He was always irreproachably dressed, good-humored and cheerful.

Consequently he was popular, and if not overburdened with brains, managed to make himself agreeable to the world, and to have what the Americans call "a good time." He had travelled much and was fond of big-game shooting.