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The restaurant itself was low and teeming with the odor of past dinners. At this hour it was almost empty. Several untidy-looking waiters were rearranging tables. In the middle of the room Louis was standing. He recognized us with a little start, though he made no movement whatever in our direction. He was certainly a changed being. He stood and looked at us as though we were ghosts. Mr.
There's something here will need a little explanation." He lit a cigar as they struggled back along the path. Presently they reached the untidy-looking avenue, and a few minutes later arrived at the house. Quest looked around him in something like bewilderment. "Say, fancy keeping a big place like this, all overgrown and like a wilderness!" he exclaimed.
Waddington, the only existing member of the firm, entered -a large, untidy-looking man, also dressed in most uncomely fashion, and wearing an ill-brushed silk hat on the back of his head. He turned at once to his righthand man. "Well, did you land him?" he demanded, with some eagerness. Burton shook his head regretfully.
In leaving the town the archdeacon drove by the well-remembered entrance of Hiram's Hospital. There, at the gate, was a large, untidy farmer's wagon, laden with untidy-looking furniture; and there, inspecting the arrival, was good Mrs.
Drexley glanced through the letter rapidly, read it again more carefully, and then turned with a perplexed face to a little telephone which stood upon his table. He summoned his manager, an untidy-looking person with crumpled hair and inkstained fingers which he seemed perpetually attempting to conceal. "Mr. Warmington, is that Jesson story set up?" the editor inquired. "Yes, sir.
Its great bald head shone resplendently like a globe of alabaster. "A very remarkable child, ma'am," said the rubicund man who sat facing the woman. The woman twitched her untidy-looking black eyebrows, her head trembled slightly and set the jet fruit of her bonnet dancing and nodding. "Yes, sir," she replied. "Very remarkable," said the man, adjusting his spectacles and leaning forward.
"Where did your mistress get the brandy she has had to-day?" he asked of the pert, untidy-looking maid-of-all-work who appeared. "Where'd she get it? Out of the bottle, of course. I fetched it for her away from the grocer's, right enough," the servant said, with an impudent face and a tossed-up head. "I thought I had given you orders never to fetch your mistress anything of the sort?"
Angry-looking, dirty-brown clouds chased each other across the lowering sky, and there was a constant sound of water, trickling and gurgling and splashing, in his ears. An untidy-looking lawn with a few unkempt and overgrown rhododendron bushes dotted here and there ran its length in front of the house and terminated in an iron railing which separated the grounds from a little wood.
An untidy-looking girl pointed out to me some stairs, over which was a hand pointing downwards, and a notice I descended the stairs, and found myself in a sort of cellar with two tubelike arrangements, down one of which a young man was shooting. Mr. Sonneberg rose slowly from a chair and came towards me. "Paul Schmidt, is it not?" he asked. I nodded.
At a huge desk in this room sat an elderly man, also big, worn, and untidy-looking, who waved a long slip of galley-proof in his hand, and was engaged in scolding a sub-editor. "Who is that?" he said, wheeling round. "I'm busy, can't see anyone." "I beg your pardon," answered the Major with humility, "your people told me to come up. My name is Alan Vernon." "Oh! I remember.
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