Immediately he was gratified by the sight of the entrance into the inner room of the person who was the cause of all this subdued commotion.
The newcomer was a very handsome man, of slender and graceful proportions, tall and elegant, and dressed in the extreme of fashion, yet with a taste that robbed foppery itself of any appearance of absurdity in his case.

He looked quite young at the first glance; but a keen and practised eye could detect lines in that gay and handsome face which only time could trace.

Probably he was past thirty by some years, yet many men of five and twenty looked older.

The only thing in which he differed materially from his brother dandies was that he wore his own hair in lieu of the wig; but so abundant and beautiful was it, lying upon his shoulders in large curls of tawny golden hue, and clustering with a grace about his temples that no wig ever yet attained, that not the most ardent upholder of the peruke could wish him to change the fashion of his coiffure, which, in fact, gave to his outer man a touch of distinction which was well borne out by the elegance of his deportment and costume.
Tom stared his fill at the newcomer, who was attended by several of the habitues of the coffee house, and received their welcome with a languid grace and indifferent goodwill.

He was speedily accommodated with the best seat in the room.