1 I drew back and watched carefully, and saw the whole man emerge.
2 First, he asked if a man in England might have two solicitors or more.
3 The man who took them pressed them to his heart and bowed, and then put them in his cap.
4 As to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the last Pop.
5 I did not see the face, but I knew the man by the neck and the movement of his back and arms.
6 He is a young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition.
7 This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder.
8 It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
9 They were driven by a tall man, with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face from us.
10 For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.
11 I was at first interested and somewhat amused, for it is wonderful how small a matter will interest and amuse a man when he is a prisoner.
12 Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
13 This was not very pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man; but every one seemed so kind-hearted, and so sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched.
14 Here and there was a peasant man or woman kneeling before a shrine, who did not even turn round as we approached, but seemed in the self-surrender of devotion to have neither eyes nor ears for the outer world.
15 But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.
16 The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
17 He seemed thoroughly to understand, and went on to ask if there would be any practical difficulty in having one man to attend, say, to banking, and another to look after shipping, in case local help were needed in a place far from the home of the banking solicitor.
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