Some, on the other hand, showed themselves at once the aristocracy of the class, by their carriage and social qualifications or assumptions.

These were not generally the best scholars; but they set the fashion in the cut of their coats, and especially in the style of their neckerchiefs.

Most of them were of Highland families; some of them jolly, hearty fellows; others affected and presumptuous, evidently considering it beneath them to associate with the multitude.
Alec belonged to a middle class.

Well-dressed, he yet knew that his clothes had a country air, and that beside some of the men he cut a poor figure in more than in this particular.

For a certain superiority of manner distinguished them, indicating that they had been accustomed to more of the outward refinements of life than he.