this person ( who had thus , from the first moment of his entrance , struck in me what i can only , describe as a disgustful curiosity ) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable ; his clothes , that is to say , although they were of rich and sober fabric , were enormously too large for him in every measurement -- the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground , the waist of the coat below his haunches , and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders .