2 adjectives to describe colporteurs

Having dressed my new Fact in a respectable and scholarlike coat, I shall let him take his chance with the judicious public,and content myself, for the present, with making him a sort of humble colporteur of the valuable tract on Human Brotherhood of which I have herewith furnished a few dry specimens.

As such did he view them allfrom the ornately garbed young man who came among us purveying windmills to the portly, broadclothed, gray-whiskered and forbiddingly respectable colporteur of the American Bible Society.

2 adjectives to describe  colporteurs