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He aiting to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he

ht see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of

a wild beast in siether,

were not so nobly set in his head as those of the king of beasts are in

his, and they were sharp rather than bright--pointed weapons with little

surface to betray thelittered,

and they opened and shut So far, and waiving their use to himself, a

clockmaker could have made a better pair He had a hook nose, handsome

after its kind, but too high between the eyes by probably just as much

as his eyes were too near to one another For the rest, he was large and

tall in frame, had thin lips, where his thick moustache showed them at

all, and a quantity of dry hair, of no definable colour, in its shaggy

state, but shot with red

The hand hich he held the grating

(sealy scratches newly healed), was

unusually small and pluri on the stone floor, covered with a

coarse brown coat 'Get up, pig!' growled the first