This Brass was an attorney of no good repute from Bevis Marks in the city
of London; he was a tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen, a protruding
forehead, retreating eyes, and hair of deep red. He wore a long black
surtour reaching nearly to his ankles, short black trousers, high shoes, and
cotton stocking of a blueish grey. He had a cringing manner but a very harsh
voice, and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidden, that to have had
his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have
wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl. (The Old Curiosity
Shop ch.l 1).
In chapter 33 wordt ons het kantoor van Brass beschreven, met twee
personen Mr Brass zelf en zijn zuster:
Mis Sally Brass, then, was a lady of thirty-five or thereabout, of a gaunt
and bony figure, and a resolute bearing, which if it repressed the softer
emotions of love, and kept admirers at a distance, certainly inspired a
feeling akin to awe in the breasts of those male strangers who had the
happiness of approaching her. In face she bore a striking resemblance to
her brother, Sampson - so exact, indeed, was the likenessnbetween them,
that had it consorted with Miss Brass's maiden modesty and gentle
womanhood to have assumed her brother's clothes in a frolic and sat down
beside him, it would have been difficult for the oldest friend of the family to
determine which was Sampson and which Sally, especially as the lady
