There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.

He likes Mr.Tulkinghorn's dress; there is a kind of tribute in that too.

It is eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer-like.

It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.
Has Mr.Tulkinghorn any idea of this himself?
It may be so, or it may not, but there is this remarkable circumstance to be noted in everything associated with my Lady Dedlock as one of a class--as one of the leaders and representatives of her little world.

She supposes herself to be an inscrutable Being, quite out of the reach and ken of ordinary mortals--seeing herself in her glass, where indeed she looks so.