Both garments were too long for him, and both were kept scrupulously clean.

He was a short man, thickly and strongly made.

Impenetrable composure appeared on his ugly face.

His eyes were sunk deep in his head; his nose had evidently been broken and not successfully mended; his grey hair, when he took off his hat on addressing me, was cut short, and showed his low forehead and his bull neck.

An Englishman of the last generation would, as I have since been informed, have set him down as a retired prize-fighter.