At any rate, both had his protruding blue eyes, softened in his portrait doubtless by the natural politeness of the fashionable painter.

Was it worth his while to look up the record of the third Lord Loudwater?
He decided that, if he found himself at sufficient leisure, he would.

Then he decided that he was glad that Hutchins was going; the butler had shown him but little civility.

Then he set about answering the letters.
When he had finished them he took up the stockbroker's cheque and considered it with a thoughtful frown.

He had never before seen a cheque for so large a sum; and it interested him.