His green cloth hunting-coat with gold buttons was braided and frogged with gold.

His white waistcoat glittered with gold embroidery.

This apparel, still in vogue among old people, became his face, which was not unlike that of Frederick the Great.

He never put on his three-cornered hat lest he should destroy the effect of the half-moon traced upon his cranium by a layer of powder.

His right hand, resting on a hooked cane, held both cane and hat in a manner worthy of Louis XIV.