His coat was off, and his arms were naked to the elbow; blood had disfigured much of his dress, and his hands, and even face, bore this mark of his profession; in his mouth was a cigar; in his right hand some instruments of strange formation, and in his left the remnants of an apple, with which he occasionally relieved the duty of the before-mentioned cigar.
Kabátját levetette, ingujját könyökig feltűrte; ruhája nagy részén vérfoltok éktelenkedtek, s a keze, sőt, az arca is magán viselte hivatásának ezt a jelét; szájában szivar volt; jobb kezében különös formájú műszerek, s a baljában egy almacsutka, amely időnként átvette a fent említett szivar szerepét.