He turned quickly at the sound of Somerset's footsteps, and revealed himself as a person quite out of the common.
His age it was impossible to say.

There was not a hair on his face which could serve to hang a guess upon.

In repose he appeared a boy; but his actions were so completely those of a man that the beholder's first estimate of sixteen as his age was hastily corrected to six-and-twenty, and afterwards shifted hither and thither along intervening years as the tenor of his sentences sent him up or down.

He had a broad forehead, vertical as the face of a bastion, and his hair, which was parted in the middle, hung as a fringe or valance above, in the fashion sometimes affected by the other sex.

He wore a heavy ring, of which the gold seemed fair, the diamond questionable, and the taste indifferent.