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The door opened and a small, slight, smooth-shaven man with a gentle face and keen grey eyes stood on the threshold. "I am Joseph Muller," he said with a low, soft voice. The four men in the room looked at him in astonishment. "This simple-looking individual is the man that every one is afraid of?" thought the Count, as he walked forward and held out his hand to the stranger. "I sent for you, Mr.

It was at the close of a fine, autumnal afternoon, that a simple-looking traveller, attired in a homespun suit of gray, and wearing a broad-brimmed, Quaker-looking hat, drove up to the door of the Spread Eagle Tavern, in the town of B , State of Maine, kept by Major E. Spike, and ordered refreshments for himself and horse.

"Poor old England is not such a bad country, after all," said a third, a simple-looking man in a labouring dress, who sat smoking a pipe without anything before him. "If there was but a little more work to be got, I should have nothing to say against her. I hope, however "

She looked about two- or three-and-twenty; she had a round, rather simple-looking, but pleasant face, soft cheeks, mild blue eyes, and very pretty and clean little hands. She was tidily dressed. 'You knew Yakov Ivanitch? I pursued. 'I used to know him, she said, tugging at the ends of her kerchief, and the tears stood in her eyes. I asked her to sit down.

In our little historical gallery we find this philanthropic anti-Malthusian at the head of an establishment of this kind, introducing a very meek, simple-looking bachelor to some distinguished ladies of his connoissance. "Let me present you, sir, to Madame de St. Ces dames brulent de l'envie de faire votre connoissance.

Each professed himself ready to steal a march on his neighbour, and each recognised that the other's duty to his employer was far higher than any personal consideration. The third man was Anerley, of the Gazette young, inexperienced, and rather simple-looking.

So far so good; but when the rint day came, hell purshue the testher he'd allow either of us; but threatened and abused us, callin' us names till the dogs wouldn't lick our blood. The Lord conshume him for a netarnal villain!" "That's all very well, but yait till you hear how he sarved me out," said a poor, simple-looking creature.

'Who told you to interfere? said the Radical, turning ferociously towards the simple-looking man; 'say another word and I'll 'And you! said he, addressing himself to the man in black, 'a pretty fellow you to turn against me, after I had taken your part. I tell you what, you may fight for yourself.

For appearance's sake, I watched the two players awhile: then I imitated the Captain, and sauntered to the court-yard, wondering if there might be any servant there whom I could sound. But the men lounging there were not of a simple-looking sort. They were all of forbidding aspect, and they stared at me so hard that I returned into the hall. The Count was intent upon the game.

‘Poor old England is not such a bad country, after all,’ said a third, a simple-looking man in a labouring dress, who sat smoking a pipe without anything before him. ‘If there was but a little more work to be got, I should have nothing to say against her; I hope, however—’