His attire was strictly in conformity to the prescribed rules of the service to which he belonged; but while his air was erect and military, his fingers trifled with a kind of convulsive and unconscious motion, with a bit of crape that entwined the hilt of the sword on which his body partly reclined, and which, like himself, seemed a relic of older times.
Öltözéke pontosan megfelelt a szolgálati előírásoknak; egyenesen és katonásan tartotta magát, de ujjai közben görcsösen s öntudatlanul babráltak a kardmarkolatára kötözött gyászszalaggal - maga az öregúr s a kardja is, amelyre félig rátámaszkodott, mintha régmúlt idők emléke lett volna.