a party consisting of four: first, a gentleman

in canonicals, with the priggish primness of a dissenter, instead of the frank openness of a church divine. With him walked an old lady, arrayed in very tawdry finery; simpering and smiling, and endeavouring to assume the air and manner of a boarding-school miss; though really bearing more the appearance of having been a boarder in a very large house at the bottom of Moor-fields. Then followed a middle-aged man, with a very capacious mouth, and great grey goggling eyes, staring and gaping, and having every mark of what the Scotch would call a gilliegaapus^[1]. The partner of this accomplished person was a broad, fat, frouzy woman; bearing a rubicund face, plentifully studded

1. ↑ Not exactly a fool, but a gaping, staring, stupid fellow.