His character was, so to speak, cut out of cardboard--stiff cardboard, and highly colored, with gilt edges showing here and there.

He also, as has been said, resembled a nobleman on the stage of the Adelphi.

He had a handsome inflamed face, with an aquiline nose and white eyebrows that moved up and down, and all the other things; he was stout and tall, suffered from the gout, and carried with him in the house a black stick with an india-rubber pad on the end.

There were no shades about him at all.

Construct a conventionally theatrical heavy father, of noble family, and you have Lord Talgarth to the life.