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It is evidence of the shrewdness of the old fellow at character-reading that he wasted none of his silk and velvet pretenses upon me, and so saved his time and mine. Probably he wished me to see that I need have no timidity or false shame in dealing with him, that when the time came to talk business I was free to talk it in my own straight fashion.
They laughed this time, and Miss Anglin did too, because she knew Berta was just drawing her out, so to speak. She went on to give other examples about the things we see while out walking or shopping or at a concert, and finally she drifted around to character-reading. She said a street-car was a splendid field for that.
From this emotion she drew her conclusions, and she chuckled to think of how true a fortune she could tell the visitor on these premises. Mother Cockleshell's fortune-telling was not entirely fraudulent, but when her clairvoyance was not in working order she made use of character-reading with good results. "Won't the Gorgios lady have her fortune told?" she asked in wheedling tones.
"It is most important that I should watch what is going on at my present hotel," said I gravely; for I did not wish to move. "You are the most " began the duchess. But this bit of character-reading was lost. Slow but sure, the Mother Superior was at our elbows. "Adieu, Mr. Aycon," said she. I felt sure that she must manage the nuns admirably.
I really consider that one of the main things that has enabled me to master the difficult science of character-reading was the livid interest I always felt in that boy and the baffling inscrutabilities of his ways and inspirations." Tracy was not hearing a word. His spirits were gone, he was desolate. "Yes, a most wonderful character. Concealment that's the basis of it.
Yet Betty had always prided herself on her character-reading. "Hurrah, the mail and express are in!" The girls ran excitedly to their rooms. Betty alone went to hers without interest. "Why, Hilma, what's happened?" The little round-faced Swedish maid mopped the big tears with her duster, and choked out: "Nothings, ma'am!" "Of course there is! You're crying like everything." Hilma wept aloud.
"I wonder what that son o' Gourlay's 'ull come till," said Sandy Toddle, musing on him with the character-reading eye of the Scots peasant. "To no good you may be sure of that," said ex-Provost Connal. "He's a regular splurge! When Drunk Dan Kennedy passed him his flask in the train the other day he swigged it, just for the sake of showing off. And he's a coward, too, for all his swagger.
Whether his moral nature had become warped and cracked and twisted out of all shape by constant daily and nightly contact especially the last with the sort of life he had led, or whether some of the old-time refinement of his better days still clung to him, was a question I could not decide from the exhibits before me certainly not from the calm eyes which never wavered, nor the set mouth which never for a moment relaxed, the only important features in the face so far as character-reading is concerned.
We judge the character of the thing by its appearances; and in the relation which Physiognomy bears to character-reading, we judge the character of the man by the external appearances. We study the size and form of the body, its color, its texture, its temperament, the expression of the face and the contour of the head, all of which are physiognomical.
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