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A few moments later another rap sounded on the door, and again it opened before he could call. A shrewd-looking, rather trim old lady with carefully coiffed hair stood in the doorway. "Don't let me disturb you," she said, and again Bean murmured. "Mr. Bean, my grandmother," said the flapper.
At length he raised his head, gasped, and on finding no one in the room, he let fly a volley of execrations, and rang the bell. "Is there any one there? Any one within hearing? I say Isabel, Isabel, jezabel, are you all dead and d d?" "No, your honor, not yet some of us at least," replied a shrewd-looking lad of about eighteen, nicking his appearance. "Ha, Lanty it's you, is it?
The other was a shrewd-looking, keen-faced, sparely-built man, with somewhat aquiline nose and straight narrow forehead, not at all bad-looking or evil-looking and with an air of strong determination; in short, what one calls a masterful man. He was dressed well but quietly.
When the child, obviously "one of the gentry," had walked into the stable-yard, they had abruptly stopped talking; but now, seeing that he was reading intently, and apparently quite uninterested in what they were doing, they again began speaking to one another, or rather one of them, a hard-bitten, shrewd-looking man, much the older of the two, began talking in what was, though Timmy was not aware of it, a Cockney dialect.
Even if we'd noticed it, we wouldn't speak of it in my world. A few months ago I should have turned away my eyes and forgotten even the headline as quickly as I could. 'My opinion, said a shrewd-looking young man, 'is that she's forgot what she meant to say, and just clutched at this to keep her from drying up. 'Since that morning in the police-court I read these things.
The voice a gentleman's and pleasantly modulated was not one he knew; nor did he recognise the speaker a youngish, shrewd-looking man, dressed in civilian black, with knee-breeches. "Lapenotiere of the Pickle schooner." "Yes, yes the porter bungled your name badly, but I guessed. Lord Barham will see you personally.
I thought that looked like business, so at the appointed time I called and sent in my card, while I waited in Sir William's ante-room. He was a tall, shrewd-looking old gentleman, with a broad Scotch accent and I think I see him now as he entered with my card in his hand. The first thing he did was to return it, with the frugal reminder that I should probably find it useful on some other occasion.
He had a private desk for his own use under one of the windows, in which he kept all the accounts that passed through his hands; and it was not an unusual sight to see the Doctor composing his startling, soul-awakening sermons at the large table in the centre of the room, and the little shrewd-looking, grey-haired house-steward dotting down figures quietly at the desk below the window.
It was a brisk, intelligent, and remarkably shrewd-looking young man, with a cloak over his shoulders, an odd sort of cap on his head, a strangely twisted staff in his hand, and a short and very crooked sword hanging by his side. He was exceeding light and active in his figure, like a person much accustomed to gymnastic exercises, and well able to leap or run.
He was a burly-looking man, with a jovial red face, clean shaven, and his sharp, shrewd-looking grey eyes twinkled like two stars. He was, well-dressed in a suit of light clothes, and wore a stiffly-starched white waistcoat, with a massive gold chain stretched across it. Altogether he gave Mrs.
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