He had the same regular features, rather square in the outline, which he had transmitted to his children; and his hair, which was now silvered with many streaks, had been raven black in its day.

His carriage was upright and fearless, and he was very tall and powerfully proportioned.

It was Bertram's keenest ambition to grow up in all points like his father, and he copied him, consciously and unconsciously, in a fashion that often raised a smile on his mother's face.
"I have been favoured with another insolent letter from my Lord of Mortimer," he said.

"He had better take heed that he try not my patience too far, and that I go not to the king and lay a complaint before him.

I will do so if I be much more troubled." "What says he now, father ?" asked Bertram eagerly, forgetting in his eagerness the generally observed maxim that the sons spoke not at table till they were directly addressed.