text:  Be this as it may he was short rather than tall lean rather than fat --in a shabby brown surtout--smoked and took snuff--had been in Dauphine--thought the Germans a set of European Chinese--considered a national guard as the model of a good soldier--kept spitting out of the window from time to time--stretched his legs most inconveniently against ours--tied his head up at dark in a dirty bird's-eye blue cotton _mouchoir-de-poche_ and snored throughout the night