encoutering a person who tho' though known
to him indeed has hardly been long
enough known for thorough knowledge,
but whose something in whose aspect
nevertheless now for the first operates
upon him with a r provokes a vaguely
repellant distaste. But coming to a
stand, and resuming much of his
wonted official manner, save that a sort of
impatience lurked in the intonation of
the opening word, he said "Well? what
is it, Master-at-Arms?" With the air of
a subordinate grieved at the necessity of
being a messenger of ill tidings , and while
conscientiously determined to be frank, yet
but to equally resolved upon shun shunning overstatement, countenance of one at unawares
encoutering a person who tho' though known
to him indeed has hardly been long
enough known for thorough knowledge,
but whose something in whose aspect
nevertheless now for the first operates
upon him with a r provokes a vaguely
repellant distaste. But coming to a
stand, and resuming much of his
wonted official manner, save that a sort of
impatience lurked in the intonation of
the opening word, he said "Well? what
is it, Master-at-Arms?" With the air of
a subordinate grieved at the necessity of
being a messenger of ill tidings , and while
conscientiously determined to be frank, yet
but to equally resolved upon shun shunning overstatement, countenance of one at unawares
Transcribed by: John Bryant