He had dark brown hair, thick and long, and a cropped beard of hue somewhat lighter.

His eyes were his mother's--keen and direct; but they had small variety of expression; you could not imagine them softening to tenderness, or even to thoughtful dreaming.

Terribly wide awake, they seemed to be always looking for the weak points of whatever they regarded, and their brightness was not seldom suggestive of malice.

His voice was strong and clear; it would ring out well in public places, which is equivalent to saying that it hardly invited too intimate conference.

You will take for granted that Richard displayed, alike in attitude and tone, a distinct consciousness of his points of superiority to the men among whom he lived; probably he more than suspected that he could have held his own in spheres to which there seemed small chance of his being summoned.
Just now he showed at once the best and the weakest of his points.
Coming in a state of exaltation from a meeting of which he had been the eloquent hero, such light as was within him flashed from his face freely; all the capacity and the vigour which impelled him to strain against the strait bonds of his lot set his body quivering and made music of his utterance.