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Casting , to see what he was

like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in

stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seeed chisel There were soht have been dimples, if the material had been softer and

the instrument finer, but which, as it ere only dints The chisel

had made three or four of these atteiven theed him

to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared

to have sustained a good s, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping

at a tos

and seals hung at his watch-chain, as if he were quite laden with

re eyes,--small, keen,

and black,--and thin wide mottled lips He had had them, to the best of

my belief, from forty to fifty years

"So you were never in London before?" said Mr Wemmick to me

"No," said I

"I was new here once," said Mr Wemmick "Rum to think of now!"