The thin gray moustache was impatiently gnawed, first on one side and then on the other.

Then the military streak of gray that bristled forth as an imperial was pushed upward and between the lips by bony fingers.

He was a picture of dutiful rebellion, Immaculately dressed was he, and distinguished from the soles of his pointed shoes to the beak of his natty cap.

A light colored newmarket of the most fashionable cut was buttoned closely about his thin figure.
The young woman was not tall, nor was she short; she was of that indefinite height known as medium.

Her long green coat fitted her snugly and perfectly; a cap of the same material was perched jauntily upon her dark hair.