The features of it were well-shaped, and not smaller than proportioned to the small whole of his person.

His eyes--partly, perhaps, because there was so little flesh upon his bones--were large, and in repose had much of a soft animal expression: there was not in them the look of You and I know.
Frequently, too, when occasion roused the needful instinct, they had a sharp expression of outlook and readiness, which, without a trace of fierceness or greed, was yet equally animal.

Only all the time there was present something else, beyond characterization: behind them something seemed to lie asleep.

His hands and feet were small and childishly dainty, his whole body well-shaped and well put together--of which the style of his dress rather quashed the evidence.
Such was Gibbie to the eye, as he rose from Daurside to the last cultivated ground on the borders of the burn, and the highest dwelling on the mountain.

It was the abode of a cottar, and was a dependency of the farm he had just left.