He was rather short-sighted, and a pair of eye-glasses was always on his nose, or in his hand.

His nose was long, and well pronounced, and his chin, also, was sufficiently prominent; but the great feature of his face was his mouth.

The amount of secret medical knowledge of which he could give assurance by the pressure of those lips was truly wonderful.

By his lips, also, he could be most exquisitely courteous, or most sternly forbidding.

And not only could he be either the one or the other; but he could at his will assume any shade of difference between the two, and produce any mixture of sentiment.
When Dr Fillgrave was first shown into Sir Roger's dining-room, he walked up and down the room for a while with easy, jaunty step, with his hands joined together behind his back, calculating the price of the furniture, and counting the heads which might be adequately entertained in a room of such noble proportions; but in seven or eight minutes an air of impatience might have been seen to suffuse his face.