He drew four hundred and fifty pounds a year, remains a subordinate, has no ambitions of any kind, would receive neither honour nor title, but remained the most indispensable man in the country ( BRUC, 57). He had some office under the British Government ( BRUC, 49), and occasionally he WAS the British Government ( BRUC, 54). He was one of the founders of the Diogenes Club. He had an extraordinary faculty for figures, and audited the books in some of the Government departments ( GREE, 45). He was very wellknown in the Diogenes Club ( GREE, 27) and one of the queerest member ( GREE, 29). He took snuff from a tortoiseshell box and brushed away the wandering grains from his coat with a large, red silk handkerchief ( GREE, 103). From year's end to year's end he takes no other exercise, and is seen nowhere else, except only in the Diogenes Club, which is just opposite his rooms. He lodged in Pall Mall ( FINA, 166), and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening. He had no ambition and no energy ( GREE, 38).
He possessed in a larger degre the faculty of observation and deduction than his brother Sherlock Holmes ( GREE, 13). He was very massive ( FINA, 200), tall and portly, heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful in its brow, so alert in its steel-grey, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only the dominant mind ( BRUC, 136).
His eyes, which were of a peculiarly light watery grey, seemed to always retain that far-away, introspective look which could be only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers ( GREE, 60). His body was absolutely corpulent, but his face, though massive, had preserved something of the sharpness of expression which was so remarkable in that of his brother. He was 7 years older than Sherlock Holmes ( GREE, 23).
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