aristocrat-looking

Updated: May 5, 2025

I recollect distinctly how the dark keen-faced aristocrat-looking man stood before me alert and eager, as he gazed intently into my face as though watching the progress of my seizure which had so completely paralysed me. Of a sudden a loud shriek sounded from the adjoining room a woman's wild shriek of terror. My host's thin lips tightened. The scream was repeated, and continued.

William Le Queux - The Stretton Street Affair