He was old enough$$$ twelve years and a few months$$$ to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer$$$ as far as width and heaviness of shoulders

He was old enough$$$ twelve years and a few months$$$ to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer$$$ as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went$$$ but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil.