OLD MAN OF IxMPOSING APPEARANCE. I2d 
independent as his own was reserved and dignified. 
With their strange costumes, easy movements, and 
the animation of their manner excited by curiosity, 
the entire group presented a very picturesque 
appearance. 
The aspect of the old man, with his grey flowing 
beard, bushy eyebrows, solemn visage, aiid mild 
observant eyes, was very imposing. In his hand 
he held his badge of office, a wand of ebony with a 
green silken cord entwined about it like the serpent 
of iEsculapius. Two pages stood behind him with 
his fan, tobacco pouch, and umbrella, his long- 
stemmed pipe being in his ovm hand. He was 
dressed in a loose violet-coloured robe, with the 
cuffs of the sleeves turned up with scarlet, which 
covered, and partly concealed, an inner crimson 
tunic reaching 'below the knees., His loose, wide 
pantaloons of green were tied in above his ankles, 
and on his feet he wore white socks and black 
leather boots, much pointed and turned up at the 
to^s, resembling those worn by the courtiers in the 
reign of Charles the Second. His venerable head 
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