It was a face that, while it filled you with some melancholy foreboding of the changes and chances which must, in the inevitable course of fate, cloud the openness of the unwrinkled brow, and Soberize the fire of the daring and restless eye, instilled also within you some assurance of triumph, and some omen of success,-a vague but powerful sympathy with the adventurous and cheerful spirit which appeared literally to speak in its expression.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton