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Begging to be excused for a moment, he passed away into the rearmost quarters of the bank; whence, after an appreciable interval, he returned again in earnest talk with a superior, an oldish and a baldish, but a very gentlemanly man. 'Mr Morris Finsbury, I believe, said the gentlemanly man, fixing Morris with a pair of double eye-glasses. 'That is my name, said Morris, quavering.
A dark, grizzled, baldish man, with high steep forehead, long, haggard, leathern visage, sweeping beard, and large, stern, commanding, menacing eyes, with his Brussels ruff of point lace and his Milan coat of proof, he was in personal appearance not unlike the terrible duke whom men never named without a shudder, although a quarter of a century had passed since he had ceased to curse the Netherlands with his presence.
He was just thirty, and in that same summer an imperious wire drew me to his baronial castle: "Got good haul; ex Tamar. Come along." It was an unusually good haul, arranged with a single eye to my benefit. There was a baldish, broken-down captain of Native Infantry, shivering with ague behind an indomitable red nose and they called him Captain Dickson.
A dark, grizzled, baldish man, with high steep forehead, long, haggard, leathern visage, sweeping beard, and large, stern, commanding, menacing eyes, with his Brussels ruff of point lace and his Milan coat of proof, he was in personal appearance not unlike the terrible duke whom men never named without a shudder, although a quarter of a century had passed since he had ceased to curse the Netherlands with his presence.
On inquiry, found that "the boys," were certain baldish and grayish old gentlemen that one sees or hears of in various important stations of society. Call him by the latter title, and see how he likes it. Well, he came in last night glorious, as I was saying.
"You should see her saintly life, Melissa! She just devotes herself to spreading her principles, and and she looks lovely!" An old, baldish bee came up the comb. "Pillar-workers for the Gate! Get out and chew scraps. Buzz off!" she said. The Wax-moth slipped aside. The young bees trooped down the frame, whispering. "What's the matter with 'em?" said the oldster.
"No," said the Commendatore, jerking his head, his baldish old head with its fringe of iron-grey curls. "Yes," said Susanna, resolutely compressing her lips. "No," said he. "It is not etiquette. The new-comer pays the first call." "That is Italian etiquette," said she. "But my cousin is an Englishman." "Nun fa nien'e. He is in Italy.
And, also, Tom Meredith was a slim young thing, and not the middle-aged youth with an undeniable stomach and a baldish head, who, by the grotesque necromancy of his hallucinations, assumed a preposterous likeness to his old friend.
The third of our companions at Origny was no less a person than the landlady's husband: not properly the landlord, since he worked himself in a factory during the day, and came to his own house at evening as a guest: a man worn to skin and bone by perpetual excitement, with baldish head, sharp features, and swift, shining eyes.
"I'm sorry I made Len sore." The blond man spoke contritely. Then his voice snapped into animosity. "He's worth a dozen Paul Burtons, the vapid little piano-player." "Right-o!" Thayre stood with his feet well apart and his baldish head thrown back.
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