text:  Upon this he pulled out a large shabby green pocket-book from his coat; took off a greasy black stock displaying a collarless shirt and neck upon the tinge of which it would be needless to descant and then extracting from the pocket-book two curvilinear pieces of dirty white paper which had been folded more than once and had an ink spot or two on their surface applied them to his chin holding their corners in his mouth buckled on his stock again over them adjusted these pseudo collars by aid of his watch-back grinned a mile of approbation and exclaimed "Me voila propre!" It is not enough to be _propre_ in one article of dress only: you must preserve a certain aesthetical _tournure_ or else set yourself down among the frampy multitude for ever