He was a hale hearty man, of perhaps sixty years of age, who had certainly been handsome, and was even now not the reverse.

Or rather, one may say, that he would have been so were it not that there was a low, restless, cunning legible in his mouth and eyes, which robbed his countenance of all manliness.
He was a hale man, and well preserved for his time of life; but nevertheless, the extra rubicundity of his face, and certain incipient pimply excrescences about his nose, gave tokens that he lived too freely.

He had lived freely; and were it not that his constitution had been more than ordinarily strong, and that constant exercise and exposure to air had much befriended him, those pimply excrescences would have shown themselves in a more advanced stage.
Such was Mr.Mollett senior--Mr.Matthew Mollett, with whom it will be soon our fate to be better acquainted.
The gentleman who had slowly risen from the sofa was his son, Mr.
Mollett junior--Mr.Abraham Mollett, with whom also we shall become better acquainted.

The father has been represented as not being exactly prepossessing; but the son, according to my ideas, was much less so.

He also would be considered handsome by some persons--by women chiefly of the Fanny O'Dwyer class, whose eyes are capable of recognizing what is good in shape and form, but cannot recognize what is good in tone and character.