Tullis was father, mother and big brother to the little fellow in knickers.
The American was a big, broad shouldered man, reddish haired and ruddy cheeked, with cool grey eyes; his sandy mustache was closely cropped and turned up ever so slightly at the corners of his mouth.

Despite his colouring, his face was somewhat sombre--even stern--when in repose.

It was his fine, enveloping smile that made friends for him wherever he listed, with men and with women.

More frequently than otherwise it made more than friends of the latter.
One woman in Graustark was the source of never-ending and constantly increasing interest to this stalwart companion to the Prince.

That woman was, alas! the wife of another man.