He neither walked with extravagant paces, nor waved his arms like a windmill.

A sufficiency of good food, and the habit of intercourse with active men; had given him an every-day aspect; perhaps the sole peculiarity he retained from student times was his hollow chuckle of mirth, a laugh which struggled vainly for enlargement.

He dressed with conventional decency, even submitting to the chimney-pot hat.

His features betrayed connection with a physically coarse stock; but to converse with him was to discover the man of original vigour and wide intellectual scope.

With ordinary companions, it was a rare thing for him to speak of his professional interests.