But the doctor was much the more respectable-looking man of the two; his
baldness was more intellectual and benevolent; there was a delicacy and propriety in the pulpiness of his fat white chin, a bland bagginess in his unwhiskered cheeks, a reverent roughness about his eyebrows and a fullness in his lower eyelids, which raised him far higher, physiognomically speaking, in the social scale, than my old prison acquaintance.
In spite of his obtrusive
baldness, he gave the impression of youth.
baldness, which is one of degree and has no sharp boundaries.
Even
baldness, when it is only
baldness over the forehead (as in his case), is rather becoming than not in a man, for it heightens the head and adds to the intelligence of the face.
A great white cap, with a quantity of opaque frilling that was always flapping about, apologised for Maggy's
baldness, and made it so very difficult for her old black bonnet to retain its place upon her head, that it held on round her neck like a gipsy's baby.
But looking at the old man as he stood quiet with his bead bowed and his eyes cast down, he felt that to relinquish an inch of his
baldness, an inch of his grey hair, an inch of his coat-skirt, an inch of his hat-brim, an inch of his walking-staff, would be to relinquish hundreds of pounds.
This was a tall, thin man, with a sandy-coloured head inclined to
baldness, and a face in which solemn importance was blended with a look of unfathomable profundity.
He quite realises my idea of King Lear, as he appeared when in possession of his kingdom, Mr Richard--the same good humour, the same white hair and partial
baldness, the same liability to be imposed upon.
TRIBUTE: Mayor Doug Golby lays a cross on behalf of the town with the Rev Richard
Awre who took the service, looking on.
Rev Richard
Awre, of St Nicholas CE Church, said: "The churches together service follows our millennium celebration last year which attracted about 400 people.