Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . ngular depth andpower; full and somewhat sensuous lips, com-prising between them a mouth of immensetenacity; a broad, high forehead of a startlingpaleness ; and a nose of that full penduloustype which is invariably associated withorganising ability and staying-power. Theprominence of the cheek betrays some strongpotentiality for emotion; but it is especiallythe attitude of the whole figure that indicatesthe mind within. The young man is shown supp
Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . ngular depth andpower; full and somewhat sensuous lips, com-prising between them a mouth of immensetenacity; a broad, high forehead of a startlingpaleness ; and a nose of that full penduloustype which is invariably associated withorganising ability and staying-power. Theprominence of the cheek betrays some strongpotentiality for emotion; but it is especiallythe attitude of the whole figure that indicatesthe mind within. The young man is shown supported by asmall pilaster, in the German manner of theperiod. The right hand is thrust negligentlyinto the pocket of the trousers ; the left grasps,in fingers of a certain obesity, a book whichwe believe to be an English Bible. . Thereis something further — something which awritten description can hardly convey, butwhich carries one away as one gazes at themagnificent coloured enlaro-ement which hanofsto-day in the hall of Mr Harnetts house inCharles Street. . It is an impression—aconviction rather—that this man is in some in- ». ) :!!! (MU. DAKNKII) HIE riJKTKAIT IJV MK lIliNKV , MR BURDEN 67 scrutable way linked with the fate of an assertion in cold print means little ;made in the presence of the man or hisemblem, it has the force of prophecy. To-day the figure and the face are years do not pass without leavingtheir mark, even upon the Heroes of ourstrenuous epoch. An increasing stoutness—the hereditary enemy of his family—has affectedthe gait and figure of Mr I. Z. Barnett. Hisonce luxuriant black curls are fallen. His headis surrounded by a short ring of reverend greyhairs, still crisp, however, and still admirablybarbered. The clean-shaven face of the May-ence photograph boasts the whiskers of latermiddle age that meet above the mouth in amanner luxuriant, but quaintly foreign chins
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