Then I have a quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a
well-thriven man, tolerably genteel--Not to his features so much
neither; for what, as you have often observed, are features in a man?
--But Hickman, with strong lines, and big cheek and chin bones, has
not the manliness in his aspect, which Lovelace has with the most
regular and agreeable features.

Then what a set and formal mortal he is in some things!--I have not
been able yet to laugh him out of his long bid and beads. Indeed,
that is, because my mother thinks they become him; and I would not be
so free with him, as to own I should choose to have him leave it off.
If he did, so particular is the man, he would certainly, if left to
himself, fall into a King-William's cravat, or some such antique
chin-cushion, as by the pictures of that prince one sees was then the
fashion.

As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but
sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly
elegant. And for his manners, he makes such a bustle with them, and
about them, as would induce one to suspect that they are more
strangers than familiars to him. You, I know, lay this to his
fearfulness of disobliging or offending. Indeed your over-doers
generally give the offence they endeavour to avoid.

The man however is honest: is of family: has a clear and good estate;
and may one day be a baronet, an't please you. He is humane and
benevolent, tolerably generous, as people say; and as I might say too,
if I would accept of his bribes; which he offers in hopes of having
them all back again, and the bribed into the bargain. A method taken