His features were delicate and handsome; gentle blood ran in his veins, as I have said.

All classes in Barmouth treated him with invariable courtesy.

He was aboriginal in character, not to be moved by antecedent or changed by innovation--a Puritan, without gentleness or tenderness.

He scarcely concealed his contempt for the emollients of life, or for those who needed them.

He whined over no misfortune, pined for no pleasure.