The green coat had been a smart dress garment in the days of swallow-tails, but had evidently in those times adorned a much shorter man than the stranger, for the soiled and faded sleeves scarcely reached to his wrists.
A zöld kabátja valaha elegáns viselet lehetett, a fecskefarkú kabátok divatja korában, de kissé piszkos volt és kopott, s annak idején nyilván sokkal kisebb emberre szab­ták, mert a kabát ujja alig ért a csuklójáig.