text:  A tuck or rapier of some length was girded round his loins; a corselet with bandoleer slung around it covered the front of his buff-coat; and a morion destitute of all feather or ornament concealed for the greater part his hair closely clipped in compliance with the puritanical fashions of the times the colour of which however might be divined by the fairness of the young mustache that curled lovingly about his upper lip