Lord Chiltern The reader has been told that Lord Chiltern was a red man, and that peculiarity of his personal appearance was certainly the first to strike a stranger.

It imparted a certain look of ferocity to him, which was apt to make men afraid of him at first sight.

Women are not actuated in the same way, and are accustomed to look deeper into men at the first sight than other men will trouble themselves to do.

His beard was red, and was clipped, so as to have none of the softness of waving hair.

The hair on his head also was kept short, and was very red,--and the colour of his face was red.