His perfect health and teeth as white as milk made him look even younger than he was.

His countenance, without being decidedly handsome, was fine and very agreeable.

His hair was light, of the Saxon hue, and his complexion was fair.
Thus he had many advantages; but Mrs.Peter Melcombe felt that as the mother of a child so richly endowed, and as the possessor of eight hundred a year in order that he might be suitably brought up, she was a desirable match also.

She did not mean the boy to cost her much for several years to come, and till he came of age (if he lived) she had that handsome old house to live in.

Old Augustus Mortimer, on the other hand, was very rich, she knew; he was a banker and his only son was his partner.