But perhaps the glory of the face was due more to the finished moulding and fine symmetry of the nose and mouth than to his other features.

On his short upper lip he had a moustache as well formed as his eyebrows, but he wore no other beard.

The form of his chin too was perfect, but it lacked that sweetness and softness of expression, indicative of softness of heart, which a dimple conveys.
He was about five feet nine in height, and was as excellent in figure as in face.

It was admitted by men and clamorously asserted by women that no man had ever been more handsome than Felix Carbury, and it was admitted also that he never showed consciousness of his beauty.

He had given himself airs on many scores;--on the score of his money, poor fool, while it lasted; on the score of his title; on the score of his army standing till he lost it; and especially on the score of superiority in fashionable intellect.