A Man

This passage is a description of a man.

Lexile Level: 1480L

Categories: History People & Places

Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waist-coat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire. He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close, and were of a fine texture; his shoes and buckles, too, though plain, were trim. He wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head which, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass.