He had once been induced to go up the Rhine, but had never repeated the experiment of foreign travel.

Emily sometimes went abroad with her cousins, during which periods it was supposed that the old lawyer spent a good deal of his time at the Eldon.

He was a spare, thin, strongly made man, with spare light brown hair, hardly yet grizzled, with small grey whiskers, clear eyes, bushy eyebrows, with a long ugly nose, on which young barristers had been heard to declare that you might hang a small kettle, and with considerable vehemence of talk when he was opposed in argument.

For, with all his well-known coolness of temper, Mr.Wharton could become very hot in an argument, when the nature of the case in hand required heat.

On one subject all who knew him were agreed.