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Chapter 2

           Theyoungmanoftenrecalledthisimpressionafterwards,andevenascribedittopresentiment.Helookedrepeatedlyattheclerk,partlynodoubtbecausethelatterwasstaringpersistentlyathim,obviouslyanxioustoenterintoconversation.Attheotherpersonsintheroom,includingthetavern-keeper,theclerklookedasthoughhewereusedtotheircompany,andwearyofit,showingashadeofcondescendingcontemptforthemaspersonsofstationandcultureinferiortohisown,withwhomitwouldbeuselessforhimtoconverse.Hewasamanoverfifty,baldandgrizzled,ofmediumheight,andstoutlybuilt.Hisface,bloatedfromcontinualdrinking,wasofayellow,evengreenish,tinge,withswolleneyelidsoutofwhichkeenreddisheyesgleamedlikelittlechinks.Buttherewassomethingverystrangeinhim;therewasalightinhiseyesasthoughofintensefeelingperhapstherewereeventhoughtandintelligence,butatthesametimetherewasagleamofsomethinglikemadness.Hewaswearinganoldandhopelesslyraggedblackdresscoat,withallitsbuttonsmissingexceptone,andthatonehehadbuttoned,evidentlyclingingtothislasttraceofrespectability.Acrumpledshirtfront,coveredwithspotsandstains,protrudedfromhiscanvaswaistcoat.Likeaclerk,heworenobeard,normoustache,buthadbeensolongunshaventhathischinlookedlikeastiffgreyishbrush.Andtherewassomethingrespectableandlikeanofficialabouthismannertoo.

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