He's got the gift of the gab." The crowd accordingly drew aside, and the individual, in whose behalf the movement had been made immediately stepped forward.

He was a young man of about two-and-twenty, who, without having anything remarkable either in dress or appearance, was yet a noticeable person, if only for the indescribable expression of cunning pervading his countenance.

His eyes were small and grey; as far apart and as sly-looking as those of a fox.

A physiognomist, indeed, would have likened him to that crafty animal, and it must be owned the general formation of his features favoured such a comparison.

The nose was long and sharp, the chin pointed, the forehead broad and flat, and connected, without any intervening hollow, with the eyelid; the teeth when displayed, seemed to reach from ear to ear.