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Feeling very much of a fool to be thus taken by surprise, I scrambled to my feet and hastened to make my visitor welcome. He did not refuse me his hand; but he gave it with a coldness and distance for which I was quite unprepared, and his countenance, as he looked on me, was marked in a strong degree with concern and severity.
'So, sir, I find you here? ' said he, in tones of little encouragement. 'Is that you, George? You can run away; I have business with your master.'