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Updated: May 7, 2025
He leaned back in his chair and went over again, for the hundredth time, the list of all the people he could borrow from, or who would "back" a bill for him, and he was still employed in this melancholy and hopeless enumeration, when a low knock came to the door, and a maid-of-all-work, pushing it open, thrust in a homely little man in a dusty-brown coat, who put up a hand to his forehead as he came in with a salutation which was half charity school-boy, half awkward recruit.
Phineas Hull was a small, ferret-like, calculating man with a sparse growth of dusty-brown hair and an eyelid, the right one, which was partially paralyzed and drooped heavily, giving him a characterful and yet at times a sinister expression. His partner, Mr. Benoni Stackpole, had been once a stage-driver in Arkansas, and later a horse-trader.
Not a man in this county can drive like that but Talbot." Round they come the colonel straight as a whip dusty-brown overcoat, flowers in his buttonhole bell-crowned hat, brown driving gloves perfectly appointed, even if he is a trifle pale and half blind.
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