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The latter were superb long, massive, and smooth, their tips quite meeting far in front of his trunk. His tail was much longer than in the Indian elephants, and was tipped with a bunch of long, straight, black hair. Altogether he was an unwholesome, disagreeable-looking brute, who munched his grass morosely and had no elephantine geniality.
On the knocker being applied, the green door was opened by a disagreeable-looking old woman, who answered to the question, "Is Mr Moxton in?" with a short "Yes," and, without farther remark, ushered our hero into a very dingy and particularly small office, which, owing to the insufficient quantity of daylight that struggled through the dirty little windows, required to be lighted with gas.
By the bye speaking of her reminds me of that dinner at the Turkish Embassy do you remember a disagreeable-looking man who sat next to me, one Feist, a countryman of mine? 'Rather! I wondered how he came there. 'He had a letter of introduction from the Turkish Minister in Washington. He is full of good letters of introduction. 'I should think they would need to be good, observed Logotheti.
Opening from this is a small dark bedroom, with one cot made up and another folded against the wall. Against a door, which must communicate with the front room, in which we saw the disagreeable-looking men sitting, is a wooden table for the hand-basin. A small trunk and a barrel of clothing complete the inventory. Em's sister in the slum work gives us a sweet shy welcome.
A disagreeable-looking man with a big round nose, small red eyes, unshaven face, and slightly unsteady voice, rose, laid down his pipe, and beckoned to Zachariah, who advanced towards him. The Secretary for he it was produced a memorandum-book, and began with a stutter: "In the sacred name of " "Stop!" cried Zachariah, "I don't swear."
Her round was a long one, and few people seemed tempted to buy of such a slovenly, disagreeable-looking woman, one who grew rude too, if people did not want any of her goods. So it was that Huldah had got safely home without being overtaken, and once within that cosy kitchen felt herself safe from all danger.
"Oh no, my man," he says; "you needn't mind that. I'll give Pecksniff orders to see to that." And I ask, said Mr Tapley, pointing, in conclusion, to Mr Tigg, with his hat, 'any lady or gentleman, possessing ordinary strength of mind, to say whether he's a disagreeable-looking chap or not!
Elwell stood before them. She had probably seen them from the window, for she uttered no word of surprise at seeing Chester again. Indeed, she said nothing at all, but only stood rigidly before them. Dear me, what a disagreeable-looking woman! thought Miss Salome. But she said courteously, "Are you Mrs. Elwell?" "I am," said that lady forbiddingly.
Precautions were taken on this point, and around you, as around myself, it would be difficult to meet with a disagreeable-looking face."
Letts, carrying his head very erect, took a firmer grip of their arms and gazed steadily at a disagreeable-looking man who was eying them in some astonishment from the doorway. With arms still linked they found the narrow gateway somewhat difficult, but they negotiated it by a turning movement, and, standing in the front garden, waited while Mrs. Green tried to find her voice.
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