Sir Leicester Dedlock is with my Lady and is happy to see Mr. Tulkinghorn. There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute. He likes Mr. Tulkinghorn's dress; there is a kind of tribute in that too. It is eminently respectable, and likewise, in a general way, retainer-like. It expresses, as it were, the steward of the legal mysteries, the butler of the legal cellar, of the Dedlocks.

Sir Leicester Dedlock is with my Lady and is happy to see Mr. Tulkinghorn. He likes Mr. Tulkinghorn's air, and his clothes, which are eminently respectable and retainer-like, as if he were the butler of the legal cellar of the Dedlocks.
