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Herr Grünlich's face was all mottled with red; but he had dressed carefully in a respectable-looking black coat and pea-green trousers like those in which he had made his first visits in Meng Street. He stood still, with his head down, looking very limp, and said in a weak exhausted sort of voice: "Father?"
The Consul bowed, not too cordially, and straightened his neckcloth with an energetic movement.