In person he was tall and loosely knit, with large joints and extremities.

His face was handsome and vivacious, expressing far more than was in him to express, and giving ground for expectation such as he had never met.

He was by no means an ill-intentioned fellow, preferred doing well and acting fairly, and neither at school nor at college had got into any serious scrape.

But he had never found it imperative to reach out after his own ideal of duty.

He had never been worthy the name of student, or cared much for anything beyond the amusements the universities provide so liberally, except dabbling in literature.