Edward Percy was a gentleman both in manner and appearance, and his handsome person, uncommon command of bearing, and polished understanding made him respected for a while by all his wide acquaintance.
- profligate and dissolute habit, a dark revengeful disposition, and a constitution formed to bear much, yet break not, soon threw Mr Percy into a wild whirl of riot and extravagance.
- handsome figure and commanding intellect had secured him the love of a young lady of high birth.
- extremely proud and haughty
- never gave one farthing in charity
Lady Helen, her countenance- now still majestic but then eminently beautiful- expressing not dark, brooding pride but stately and queen-like condescension
- looked very haughty, but with this look there shone intellect and grace
- she directly made me feel myself at ease and at home
Alexander Percy- the youthful heir of Percy hall
- slender but active boy, tall for his years and possessing a countenance whose constant play of varying expression showed in every light its eminently handsome features
- conscious of his aristocratic beauty and rather disagreeably vain of it- his expressions were struck with an effeminacy and girlishness
- the expansive forehead, the anxious eye and the sensual lip
- the hasty abruptness of his general manner and the harsh, daring tone of his conversation
- tended to shew them a proud, handsome, ill-tempered, and indulged boy, one who, it seemed, could dash though life and oppose all who opposed him.
-As for the ladies of Wellington's Land- his natural elegance was the perfection of grace; his extreme passionateness of temper, his fiery animation. His utter melancholy was indeed the quality which placed the capstone of his character, the halo which shone round him and deified him.
- "Hang me, am I turned fool myself"
- "No. No, I am entered at last on what men call the Ocean of Life; and if every anyone had a sailer, a rudder, or a chart or compass, I have none- nor shore or harbour, either."
Lady Augusta. Her character had none of this surface of lightness and vanity.
- her almost solemnly musical voice, her serious earnest smile, the expression of her dark and lustrous eyes, all most vividly showed forth a character far indeed removed from the everyday silliness of frivolity and giddiness
-she knew that Alexander Percy had a spirit far too like her own to be enslaved by nonsensical airs of goddess-like caprice and disdain.
Miss Harriet O'Connor- a handsome girl with red hair and commanding features
- her father indulged her, and her mother treated her harshly; for the first she felt grateful, the last she laughed at and forgot.
-she was totally without the restraint of pride, and animated and cheerful but sometimes blunt and sudden in her address.
- many erroneous and unusual notions which she constantly repeated, sometimes offended those who did not know her.
-but the friendly look of her eye and the odd way in which she shook her acquaintance so heartily by the hand, with her evident pleasure in seeing again those whom she had seen before, forced many to feel toward her otherwise than harshly.
-she was possessed somewhat of vanity and thought well of herself, her plain frock and pearl necklace most seldom intruded itself on others.
-she was not altogether what she seemed, for underneath lay a heart filled with strong impressions, a mind overgrown with eradicable errors, habits of constant thinking which always en in thinking wrongly.
-her mind was of the highest order but rendered useless through want of training to the right.
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