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When Mallow returned to his rooms he found Lord Aldean seated in his most comfortable arm-chair. His expression was extremely thoughtful, and, withal, a trifle anxious. Polyphemus, as Laurence sometimes called him -- in allusion to his size -- was not usually given to a gentle melancholy. Mallow could only conclude there must be something wrong with the boy.
"You here, Jim? " said he, throwing hat and gloves on a near table. "What is the matter with you, man? You look as miserable as an owl."