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As they came up to the Edwardine Gate-house, a pleasant-faced, quietly-dressed gentleman came riding out alone. "Why, here he is!" said Mr. Buxton, and greeted him with great warmth, and made Anthony known to him. "I am delighted to know Mr. Norris," said Sidney, with that keen friendly look that was so characteristic of him. "I have heard of him from many quarters."
Dick was being taken away by the dark, demure, quietly-dressed little woman I had seen at Connie Stapleton's dinner party, and, only the night before, standing among the onlookers in Gastrell's house in Cumberland Place. They walked leisurely along the platform, Dick still carrying his suit-case, and at the end of it passed down the sloping sub-way which leads to the Metropolitan Railway.
He started toward a counter, to speak to a clerk, but one of the stocky, quietly-dressed young men stepped in front of him. "Gimme a bottle of Atom-Bomb," he said. "Don't bother wrapping it." "Yes, sir." The clerk seemed worried, too. He got the bottle and set it on the counter. "That'll be two C, sir." "I see you're wearing a Radical-Socialist button," the customer commented.
She was not disappointed. Presently in came a quietly-dressed, frank-looking woman of a young forty a woman who had by no means lost her physical freshness, but had gained charm of another and more enduring kind. As she came forward with extended but not overeager hand, she said: "I was expecting you, Mrs. Siddall that is, Miss Stevens." "Mr. Jennings did not say when I was to come.
A young man presumably a business man, quietly-dressed stood at attention and saluted. If he saw the bound man in the chair, his eyes never showed it. "Ah, Whiteside," Harleston remarked. "I'm glad it is you who was sent. Come in.... You will remain here and guard this man; you will prevent any attempt at escape or rescue, even though you are obliged to use the utmost force.
As the boat approached his eye soon singled out two very quietly-dressed girls, who sat with their backs to him, and neither turned nor made any sign of expecting any addition to their party. With like undemonstrativeness he took a seat at Ida's side, and returned Sally's nod and smile.
The result of Aleck's moment of grave thought came a few days later, with the arrival of two quietly-dressed, unostentatious men. He told Mélanie that one man was her chauffeur for the white machine, and the other was an extra hand he had engaged for the return trip on the Sea Gull.
Sir Walter was genuinely surprised to find in the fearsome Birmingham Radical a quietly-dressed, well-mannered, almost boyish-looking man, who spoke in a clear, admirably pitched voice, and opposed the Prisons Bill, then under discussion, on the very lines from which Sir Walter had himself attacked it when it was brought in during the previous Session.
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