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While, he spoke, the crouching shape in the corner reared itself
upright, and keeping his fiery eyes still glaring upon Sir
Norman, advanced into the light. Our young knight was in the act
of raising his glass to his lips; but as the apparition
approached, he laid it down again, untasted, and stared at it in
the wildest surprise and intensest curiosity. Truly, it was a
singular-looking creature, not to say a rather startling one. A
dwarf of some four feet high, and at least five feet broad
across the shoulders, with immense arms and head - a giant in
everything but height. His immense skull was set on such a
trifle of a neck as to be scarcely worth mentioning, and was
garnished by a violent mat of coarse, black hair, which also
overran the territory of his cheeks and chin, leaving no neutral
ground but his two fiery eyes and a broken nose all twisted awry.
On a pair of short, stout legs he wore immense jack-boots, his
Herculean shoulders and chest were adorned with a leathern
doublet, and in the belt round his waist were conspicuously stuck
a pair of pistols and a dagger. Altogether, a more ugly or
sinister gentleman of his inches it would have been hard to find
in all broad England.
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