Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy
His forty-five years had treated him kindly. If his outline had thickened
a little, his height, which was well above six foot, made a slight
portliness negligible. He was a very fine figure of a man, and had, besides
a large and well-proportioned frame, a handsome countenance, topped by
luxuriant brown locks as yet unmarred by silver streaks. He was always
dressed with elegance, but was by far too wise a man to adopt such
extravagances of fashion as could only show up the imperfections of a
middle-aged figure.
(ch. i)