His highly-polished boots creaked detestably whenever he moved.

He had odiously watchful eyes--eyes that looked skilled in peeping through key-holes.

His large ears, set forward like the ears of a monkey, pleaded guilty to meanly listening behind other people's doors.

His manner was quietly confidential when he spoke, impenetrably self-possessed when he was silent.

A lurking air of secret service enveloped the fellow, like an atmosphere of his own, from head to foot.