The shirt was adorned with a cameo in white and blue.

The coat, cinnamon-colored, was a treasure to caricaturists by reason of its long tails, which, when seen from behind, bore so perfect a resemblance to a cod that the name of that fish was given to them.

The fashion of codfish tails lasted ten years; almost the whole period of the empire of Napoleon.

The cravat, loosely fastened, and with numerous small folds, allowed the wearer to bury his face in it up to the nostrils.

His pimpled skin, his long, thick, brick-dust colored nose, his high cheek-bones, his mouth, lacking half its teeth but greedy for all that and menacing, his ears adorned with huge gold rings, his low forehead,--all these personal details, which might have seemed grotesque in many men, were rendered terrible in him by two small eyes set in his head like those of a pig, expressive of insatiable covetousness, and of insolent, half-jovial cruelty.