He is always at work upon his teeth, which do not do much credit to his industry.

His wig is never at ease upon his head, but is poked about by him, sometimes over one ear, sometimes over the other, now on the back of his head, and then on his nose; and it is impossible to say in which guise he looks most cruel, most sharp, and most intolerable.

His linen is never clean, his hands never washed, and his clothes apparently never new.

He is about five feet six in height, and even with that stoops greatly.

His custom is to lean forward, resting with both hands on the sort of desk before him, and then to fix his small brown basilisk eye on the victim in the box before him.