In Gaskell's Words: Roger Hamley His face was rather square, ruddy-colored (as his father had said), hair and eyes brown -- the latter rather deep-set beneath his thick eyebrows; and he had a trick of wrinkling up his eyelids when he wanted particularly to observe anything, which made his eyes look even smaller still at such times. He had a large mouth, with excessively mobile lips; and another trick of his was that, when he was amused at anything, he resisted the impulse to laugh by a droll manner of twitching and puckering up his mouth, till at length the sense of humor had its way, and his features relaxed, and he broke into a broad sunny smile; his beautiful teeth -- his only beautiful feature -- breaking out with a white gleam upon the red-brown countenance. These two tricks of his -- of crumpling up the eyelids, so as to concentrate the power of sight, which made him look stern and thoughtful; and the odd twitching of the lips, which was preliminary to a smile, which made him look intensely merry -- gave the varying expressions of his face a greater range 'from grave to gay, from lively to severe,' than is common to most men. To Molly, who was not finely discriminative in her glances at the stranger this first night, he simply appeared 'heavy-looking, clumsy,' and 'a person she was sure she should never get on with.' Wives and Daughters Chapter VIII, Drifting Into Danger