His hair seemed to stiffen with success, but towards the
climax it thinned greatly over the crown, and he brushed it hard back
over his ears where, however, it stuck out fiercely. It always stuck out
fiercely over his forehead, up and forward.
He adopted an urban style of dressing with the onset of Tono-Bungay and
rarely abandoned it. He preferred silk hats with ample rich brims, often
a trifle large for him by modern ideas, and he wore them at various
angles to his axis; his taste in trouserings was towards fairly emphatic
stripes and his trouser cut was neat; he liked his frock-coat long and
full, although that seemed to shorten him. He displayed a number of
valuable rings, and I remember one upon his left little finger with a
large red stone bearing Gnostic symbols. "Clever chaps, those Gnostics,
George," he told me. "Means a lot. Lucky!" He never had any but a black
mohair watch-chair. In the country he affected grey and a large
grey cloth top-hat, except when motoring; then he would have a brown
deer-stalker cap and a fur suit of esquimaux cut with a sort of boot-end
to the trousers.
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