He was a passable-looking youngster of eighteen, fair-haired, indifferently barbered, and with a quite unnecessary pair of glasses on his fairly prominent nosehe wore these to make himself look older, that discipline might be maintained.

The churchyard was as smooth and correct as a newly-barbered head, not a hair out of place.

Then it seemed to Hill that for Wedderburn to come there day after day with cuffs unfrayed, neatly tailored, precisely barbered, quietly perfect, was in itself an ill-bred, sneering sort of proceeding.