His face was clean-shaven, harsh-featured, unwholesome of complexion; its chief peculiarity was the protuberance of the bone in front of each temple, which gave him a curiously animal aspect.

His lower lip hung and jutted forward; when he smiled, as now in advancing to the fire, it slightly overlapped the one above.

His hair was very sparse; he looked, indeed, like one who has received the tonsure.

The movement of his limbs betokened excessive indolence; he dragged his feet rather than walked.

His attire was equally suggestive; not only had it fallen into the last degree of shabbiness (having originally been such as is worn by a man above the mechanic ranks), but it was patched with dirt of many kinds, and held together by a most inadequate supply of buttons.