Let me introduce you.

My eldest daughter--Mr.Dubourg." He performed the ceremony of presentation, with the most impenetrable gravity, as if he really believed that Oscar and his daughter now met each other for the first time! Never had I set my eyes on a meaner-looking man than this rector.

In height he barely reached up to my shoulder.

In substance, he was so miserably lean that he looked the living picture of starvation.

He would have made his fortune in the streets of London, if he had only gone out and shown himself to the public in ragged clothes.