On the following morning they went up to London together, and in the course of the afternoon Mr Fisker presented himself in Abchurch Lane.

The letter written at Liverpool, but dated from the Langham Hotel, had been posted at the Euston Square Railway Station at the moment of Fisker's arrival.

Fisker sent in his card, and was asked to wait.

In the course of twenty minutes he was ushered into the great man's presence by no less a person than Miles Grendall.
It has been already said that Mr Melmotte was a big man with large whiskers, rough hair, and with an expression of mental power on a harsh vulgar face.

He was certainly a man to repel you by his presence unless attracted to him by some internal consideration.