Yesterday had been his first appearance, and he had broken ground there with great success.

He was an ill-looking person, poorly clad,--what, in common parlance, we should call seedy.

He had not a scrap of beard on his face, and though swarthy and dark as to his countenance, was light as to his hair, which hung in quantities down his back.

He was dressed from head to foot in a suit of cross-barred, light-colored tweed, of which he wore the coat buttoned tight over his chest, as though to hide some deficiency of linen.
The gentleman was altogether a disreputable-looking personage, and they who had seen him win his money,--Frenchmen and Italians for the most part,--had declared among themselves that his luck had been most miraculous.

It was observed that he had a companion with him, who stuck close to his elbow, and it was asserted that this companion continually urged him to leave the room.