Albemarle reared his great massive head, smothered in a mighty black peruke, and scowled upon the florid London beau.

The complexion of a murderer in a band-box; consisting of a large piece of burnt cork, and a coal- black peruke.

There was food for greater mirth in the appearance on the road of a solitary figure in a wine-colored coat and bushy black peruke.

(Vautrin enters wearing a plain black peruke, a blue coat, gray pantaloons, a black waistcoat, the costume of a stock-broker.)