In the first, there is more attention to fashion than is usual amongst the busy members of the House of Commons; but then Audley Egerton has always been something more than a mere busy member of the House of Commons.

He has always been a person of mark in the best society; and one secret of his success in life has been his high reputation as "a gentleman." As he now bends over the journals, there is an air of distinction in the turn of the well-shaped head, with the dark brown hair,--dark in spite of a reddish tinge,--cut close behind, and worn away a little towards the crown, so as to give an additional height to a commanding forehead.
His profile is very handsome, and of that kind of beauty which imposes on men if it pleases women; and is, therefore, unlike that of your mere pretty fellows, a positive advantage in public life.

It is a profile with large features clearly cut, masculine, and somewhat severe.

The expression of his face is not open, like the squire's, nor has it the cold closeness which accompanies the intellectual character of young Leslie's; but it is reserved and dignified, and significant of self-control, as should be the physiognomy of a man accustomed to think before he speaks.

When you look at him, you are not surprised to learn that he is not a florid orator nor a smart debater,--he is a "weighty speaker." He is fairly read, but without any great range either of ornamental scholarship or constitutional lore.