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Then she seemed to forget me entirely, and turned to a youngish-looking, stout man at her side. The stout man began to interest me, because Gladys had written to me that she would be on deck this day straining her eyes to the shore where her knight would be waiting. Now it seemed as though a brief glance at her knight was sufficient, and that she found more charm in this portly fellow traveller.
Grandison, the one almost too shaky to hold a churchwarden pipe while the other lighted it; and Roger Newte, whose monument you see over the hill a dapper, youngish-looking man, very careful of his finger-nails and smooth in his talk till he got you in a corner.
Ex-Judge Bundy had small side-whiskers, and always wore a large derby and a frock coat, sometimes black, sometimes pale gray. This youngish-looking stout man was clean shaven, and he had the ruddy skin of the out-of-doors. His hat was brown felt, with its crown wound around with a white pugree a rather affected hat, but it harmonized with his rough gray tweeds.
The two lads walked up to where the gentleman was standing, and as he heard them approach he turned quickly, and Frank saw that he was a pale, slight, thin-faced, youngish-looking man who might be forty. "Ah, Andrew," he said, "you here; how are you? You have not come to feed the ducks?" "Oh yes, I have," said Andrew, giving the stranger a peculiar look; "and I've brought a friend with me.
But he knew that there was something frightening about the one they'd picked up in Chicago. At first glance he could have been Mr. Anybody, from Anywhere, U.S.A. A youngish-looking forty, you would have figured, with a sprinkling of gray at the temples and a face women could have found interesting.
The youngish-looking man who so vigorously swung off the train at Restview, wore a pair of intensely dark blue eyes which immediately photographed everything within their range of vision flat green country, shaded farm-houses, encircling wooded hills and all weighed it and sorted it and filed it away for future reference; and his clothes clung on him with almost that enviable fit found only in advertisements.
He strolled down the terrace, and Lady Chetwynd Lyle, turning her back on "old" Lady Fulkeward, went after her "girls," while the fascinating Fulkeward herself continued to recline comfortably in her chair, and presently smiled a welcome on a youngish-looking man with a fair moustache who came forward and sat down beside her, talking to her in low, tender and confidential tones.
In this ungirt hour there imported himself into our life a youngish-looking middle-aged man of the name of Shend, with a blurred face and deprecating eyes.
Close beside him stood a youngish-looking woman, whose unwieldy bulk, however, and pallid skin revealed the sedentary life and the ravages of ill-health. Both appeared to regard Heron with a certain amount of awe, and de Batz with a vast measure of curiosity.
Sometimes he would be absent for many months, and at others he would remain there for weeks at a time, with a cheery word always for the labourers on their way home from work, and always with his hand in his pocket in the cause of charity. John Maltwood, the quiet, youngish-looking man in the gold pince-nez, was popular everywhere over the country-side.
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