No wonder she concealed it from Nellie--no wonder she had feared lest after many years he should come back and claim her for his wife--no wonder either that a man with such a face should do bad deeds.
Mr.Juxon was a judge of faces; persons accustomed for many years to command men usually are.

He noted Walter Goddard's narrow jaw and pointed chin, his eyes set near together, his wicked lips, parted and revealing sharp jagged teeth, his ill-shaped ears and shallow temples, his flat low forehead, shown off by his cropped hair.

And yet this man had once been called handsome, he had been admired and courted.

But then his hair had hidden the shape of his head, his long golden moustache had covered his mouth and disguised all his lower features, he had been arrayed by tailors of artistic merit, and he had had much gold in his pockets.

He was a very different object now--the escaped convict, close cropped, with a half-grown beard upon his ill-shaped face, and for all ornament a linen sheet drawn up under his chin.
The squire was surprised that he did not recover consciousness, seeing that he breathed regularly and was no longer so pale as at first.