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Presently from a door opposite an elderly man of middle height and spare and sinewy frame walked briskly in shook hands with Lord Evelyn was introduced to the tall red-bearded Englishman (who still stood hat in hand and with a portentous stiffness in his demeanor) begged his two guests to be seated and himself sat down at an open bureau which was plentifully littered with papers.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)