The stranger moved slowly past.

His years were under thirty, though the calm gravity of his countenance imparted to it a character of more mature age.

The cheeks were bloodless, but they betrayed rather the pallid hue of mental than of bodily disease.

The perfect condition of the physical man was sufficiently exhibited in the muscular fulness of a body which, though light and active, gave every indication of strength.
His step was firm, assured, and even; his carriage erect and easy, and his whole mien was strongly characterized by a self-possession that could scarcely escape observation; and yet his attire was that of an inferior class.

A doublet of common velvet, a dark Montero cap, such as was then much used in the southern countries of Europe, with other vestments of a similar fashion, composed his dress.