It was to this part of the cap that the bells were attached; which circumstance, as well as the shape of his head-dress, and his own half-crazed, half-cunning expression of countenance, sufficiently pointed him out as belonging to the race of domestic clowns or jesters, maintained in the houses of the wealthy, to help away the tedium of those lingering hours which they were obliged to spend within doors.
Erről is csengő lógott alá, amihez hozzájárult még az ember félig ravasz, félig esze­lős arckifejezése: mindez arra vallott, hogy emberünk az udvari bolondok vagy házi bohócok sorába tartozik. Akkoriban minden gazdag úr tartott egy ilyen mókamestert a házában, hogy elűzze a tétlen órák unalmát, ha már otthon kellett ülnie.