The extreme neatness of his clothes contrasted with the prevailing shabbiness of the students and the assistant lecturers who followed him.

Yet he did not seem to be a man who gave to externals more than their due share of consideration.
His broad forehead gave promise of great intellectual power, a promise half belied by the narrow gray eyes beneath it.

These were eyes which might see keenly, and would certainly see things just as they are, though they were not likely to catch any glimpse of that greater world where objects cannot be focussed sharply.

Yet in them, an odd contradiction, there lurked a possibility of humorous twinkling.

The man was capable perhaps of the broad tolerance of the great humorist, certainly of very acute perception of life's minor incongruities.