The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 21: what you’re looking at

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2 REYNOLDS’ WORKS countenance of the elder, it was equally impossible to avoid drawing a comparison in favour of the more delicately chiseled Grecian profile of the latter. The expression of Hugh’s features was entirely of the sense; that of Bertram’s of the sentiment. While the former indicated a love of pleasure, strong passions, and a disposition which was sensuous as well as proud, that of the latter denoted a rare intelligence blended with its pride, and the classic curl of the short upper lip declared an instinctive disdain of false- hood. Hugh’s forehead was large, prominent, and massive, that of Bertram high and arched; the former pale from a too early acquaintance with dissipation, the latter pale likewise, but as if genius itself had stamped that pallor there. Thus the brow of the elder brother seemed one on which passion and pleasure might in after years trace their lines; while that of the younger brother had all the immortality of the intellect predicted in its marble dream. The eyes of both were dark, — those of the elder flashing with all worldly feelings, those of the younger with the lightnings of the mind. Hugh’s hair was black, strong even to coarseness, and without a gloss; that of Bertram was of raven richness, shining with its own natural velvety brightness, and clus- tering in excessive luxuriance over the small, delicate, well- folded ears, and by the sides of the alabaster temples. Alto- gether, the elder brother was one whose fine appearance could not fail to command admiration, but nothing else; while that of the younger brother inspired the same feeling, but blended with interest, and almost love. On entering upon their college life, Hugh soon formed acquaintances of dispositions congenial with his own, and gave himself up to manly sports by day and dissipated pleasures by night. Hunting, racing, boating, fishing, and cock-fighting constituted the former; revelling, cards, and visits to forbidden haunts of pleasurable vice composed the latter. On the other hand, Bertram — led by taste as well as by a sense of duty — applied himself to his studies, but he could not altogether escape the influences of an elder brother’s example. In aristocratic families, where the casualties of nature may raise elder brothers to the possession of heredi- tary titles and estates, younger brothers are apt to look up to them with perhaps too much deference, from a sense that they may in process of time be placed in the position of Gomichboo Ss) (E(o)