He had not been lavish in his demonstrations of interest in the bullet-headed young man.

Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer.

Men saw his cruel young jowl and low forehead, and noticed that his eyes were small.

He had a good, swaggering military figure to which uniform was becoming, and a kind of animal good looks which would deteriorate early.

His colour would fix and deepen with the aid of steady daily drinking, and his features would coarsen and blur, until by the time he was forty the young jowl would have grown heavy and would end by being his most prominent feature.
While he had remained in England, Walderhurst had seen him occasionally, and had only remarked and heard unpleasant things of him,--a tendency to selfish bad manners, reckless living, and low flirtation.