He was a good-looking, but not strikingly handsome man; thin, of moderate height, with sharp grey eyes, a face clean shorn with the exception of a small whisker, with wiry, strong dark hair, which was already beginning to show a tinge of grey;--the very opposite in appearance to his late friend Sir Florian Eustace.

He was quick, ready-witted, self-reliant, and not over scrupulous in the outward things of the world.

He was desirous of doing his duty to others, but he was specially desirous that others should do their duty to him.

He intended to get on in the world, and believed that happiness was to be achieved by success.

He was certainly made for the profession which he had adopted.