[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER XXII 14/50
We have already alluded to his feet.
Ascending from them, and ascending not far, we come to his coat.
It is needless to say that it is a frock; needless to say that it is a long frock--long as those usually worn by younger infants, and apparently made so for the same purpose.
But look at the exquisitely small proportions of the collar; look at the grace of the long sleeves, the length of back, the propriety, the innate respectability, the perfect decorum--we had almost said the high moral worth--of the whole. Who would not willingly sacrifice any individual existence that he might become the exponent of such a coat? Macassar Jones was proud to do so. "But he had bestowed perhaps the greatest amount of personal attention on his collar.
It was a matter more within his own grasp than those great and important articles to which attention has been already drawn; but one, nevertheless, on which he was able to expend the whole amount of his energy and genius.
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