The learned counsel employed by Mr. Camperdown to give an opinion in the case of the Eustace diamonds. Mr. Dove’s opinion was written for Trollope by Charles Merewether.

"He was a thin man, over fifty years of age, very full of scorn and wrath, impatient of a fool, and thinking most men to be fools; afraid of nothing on earth,- and, so his enemies said, of nothing elsewhere; eaten up by conceit; fond of law, but fonder, perhaps, of dominion; soft as milk to those who acknowledged his power, but a tyrant to all who contested it; conscientious, thoughtful, sarcastic, bright-witted, and labourious" - The Eustace Diamonds