Yet out of the corner of those hazel eyes she scanned this fellow very attentively as he came nearer.

She corrected her first impression of his dress.

It was sober enough, but hardly gentlemanly.

Coat and breeches were of plain homespun; and if the former sat so well upon him it was more by virtue of his natural grace than by that of tailoring.

His stockings were of cotton, harsh and plain, and the broad castor, which he respectfully doffed as he came up with her, was an old one unadorned by band or feather.