He always walked with a sort of pole or pike-staff, considerably taller than himself.

His habits were, in many respects, singular, and indicated a mind congenial to its uncouth tabernacle.

A jealous, misanthropical, and irritable temper, was his prominent characteristic.

The sense of his deformity haunted him like a phantom.

And the insults and scorn to which this exposed him, had poisoned his heart with fierce and bitter feelings, which, from other points in his character, do not appear to have been more largely infused into his original temperament than that of his fellow-men.
"He detested children, on account of their propensity to insult and persecute him.