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CHAPTER VI. THE COMMERCIAL ROOM, BULL INN, LEEDS.
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Mr. Samuel Dockwrath was a little man, with sandy hair, a pale face, and stone-blue eyes. In judging of him by appearance only and not by the ear, one would be inclined to doubt that he could be a very sharp attorney abroad and a very persistent1 tyrant2 at home. But when Mr. Dockwrath began to talk, one's respect for him began to grow. He talked well and to the point, and with a tone of voice that could command where command was possible, persuade where persuasion3 was required, mystify when mystification was needed, and express with accuracy the tone of an obedient humble4 servant when servility was thought to be expedient5. We will now accompany him on his little tour into Yorkshire.
Groby Park is about seven miles from Leeds, and as Mr. Dockwrath had in the first instance to travel from Hamworth up to London, he did not reach Leeds till late in the evening. It was a nasty, cold, drizzling6 night, so that the beauties and marvels7 of the large manufacturing town offered him no attraction, and at nine o'clock he had seated himself before the fire in the commercial room at The Bull, had called for a pair of public slippers8, and was about to solace9 all his cares with a glass of mahogany-coloured brandy and water and a cigar. The room had no present occupant but himself, and therefore he was able to make the most of all its comforts. He had taken the solitary10 arm-chair, and had so placed himself that the gas would fall direct from behind his head on to that day's Leeds and Halifax Chronicle, as soon as he should choose to devote himself to local politics.
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unnaturally
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防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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rusty
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wholesale
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