wire-drawn-looking

Updated: June 11, 2025

"I expect Sammy'll be there," the landlord said, "with Steggles. I don't hide him too much they'd think I'd got something extra on if I did." In the tap-room sat a lean, wire-drawn-looking youth, with sloping shoulders and a thin face, and by his side was a rather short, thick-set man, who had an odd air, no matter what he did, of proprietorship and surveillance of the lean youth.

Arthur Morrison - Martin Hewitt, Investigator