In person, he was a plain, dry man, with short grizzled hair and thick grizzled eyebrows.

Of beard, he had very little, carrying the smallest possible grey whiskers, which hardly fell below the points of his ears.

His eyes were sharp and expressive, and his nose was straight and well formed,--as was also his chin.

But the nobility of his face was destroyed by a mean mouth with thin lips; and his forehead, which was high and narrow, though it forbad you to take Mr Dale for a fool, forbad you also to take him for a man of great parts, or of a wide capacity.

In height, he was about five feet ten; and at the time of our story was as near to seventy as he was to sixty.