Sentence:  If you want to know more particularly how he looked, call to your remembrance some tawny-whiskered, brown-locked, clear-complexioned young Englishman whom you have met with in a foreign town, and been proud of as a fellow-countryman—well-washed, high-bred, <WSD>white-handed</WSD>, yet looking as if he could deliver well from 'the left shoulder and floor his man: I will not be so much a tailor as to trouble your imagination with the difference of costume, and insist on the striped waistcoat, long-tailed coat, and low top-boots. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Aristocratic, with connotations of effeminacy and foppishness.