Er trug stets derbe hohe Stiefel, die in der Knöchelgegend zwei Falten hatten; in den Schäften waren sie steif und geradlinig, als ob ein Holzbein drinnen stäke.
As he had been for a time accustomed to wear nightcaps, his handkerchief would not keep down over his ears, so that his hair in the morning was all tumbled pell-mell about his face and whitened with the feathers of the pillow, whose strings came untied during the night.