His voice is deep and good, his face and figure are good, his manner is a little sombre.

His room is a little sombre, and may have had its influence in forming his manner.

It is mostly in shadow.

Even when the sun shines brilliantly, it seldom touches the grand piano in the recess, or the folio music-books on the stand, or the book-shelves on the wall, or the unfinished picture of a blooming schoolgirl hanging over the chimneypiece; her flowing brown hair tied with a blue riband, and her beauty remarkable for a quite childish, almost babyish, touch of saucy discontent, comically conscious of itself.
(There is not the least artistic merit in this picture, which is a mere daub; but it is clear that the painter has made it humorously--one might almost say, revengefully--like the original.) 'We shall miss you, Jasper, at the "Alternate Musical Wednesdays" to-night; but no doubt you are best at home.

Good-night.