Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 181: what you’re looking at

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172 GUY HAMMERSLEY. the impression produced by the appearance of the boy was a favorable one. ‘‘Mr. English will be here in a moment,” he said, as he shook hands. ‘‘Ah, here he is now,” and he went forward to greet a tall gentleman, with a close- shaven black beard and a searching way of looking at one through his eyeglasses that Guy thought must be particularly trying to Harold under the circum- stances. ‘This is the boy, then, is it?” he said in a quick, business-like tone, when the introductions had been made. He walked up to Harold, put his hand on his head for an instant, and placed the latter against his vest, keeping an eye on a Certain particular button as he did so. ‘* Height all right,” hecommented. ‘‘ Good figure, too, and just the coloring for Fauntleroy. Now let’s hear what you can do, young man. Here, Shepard, take him off into your bedroom yonder, as far away as you can get, and yet have him in sight. I want to see how his voice fills. You know the book pretty well, they tell me,” he went on, turning to Harold. ‘‘Can you give us some of that talk of Cedric with his grandfather in the second act?” “Yes, I know it all by heart,” answered Harold readily, looking straight up into Mr. English’s eyes ; and as the boy walked off with Shepard, Guy heard the manager mutter : ‘‘ First class carriage. Doesn’t hang his head and look silly when spoken to.” ‘I'll do the grandfather act,” proposed Shepard EO MMIC OOS (€@) m