"He looked at me like the devil himself--making the hole in his face gape at me," the old squire had said to John Vavasor in describing the interview in which the grandson had tried to bully his grandfather into assenting to his own views about the mortgage.

But in other respects George's face was not ugly, and might have been thought handsome by many women.

His hair was black, and was parted in the front.

His forehead, though low, was broad.

His eyes were dark and bright, and his eyebrows were very full, and perfectly black.