Which, no doubt, accounted for the intense ruddiness of his cheeks.
"Do you ever spank her ?" he demanded once of Mrs.Medcroft, after Tootles had brought tears to his eyes with a potent attack upon his nose.

She caught the light of danger in his grey eyes and hastily snatched the offending Tootles from his arms.
Miss Fowler kept him constantly at work with his eyeglass and his English, neither of which he was managing well enough to please her critical estimate.

In fact, he laboured all day with the persistence, if not the sullenness, of a hard-driven slave.

He did not have time to become tired.

There was always something new to be done or learned or unlearned: his day was full to overflowing.