Chapter 1—Enter Mr. Sharp “Really these English newspapers are very well written,” the worthy doctor said to himself, as he leant back in a great leathern easy-chair. All his life Dr. Sarrasin had been given to soliloquizing, one of the many results of his absence of mind. He was a man of fifty, or thereabouts; his features were refined; clear lively eyes shone through his steel spectacles, and the expression of his countenance, although grave, was genial. He was one of those people: of whom one says at first sight, “That’s an honest man!” Notwithstanding the early hour, and his rather casual attire, the doctor had already shaved and put on a white tie. Scattered near him on the carpet and on a number of chairs, in the sitting-room of his Brighton hotel, lay copies of the Times, the Daily ……
Chapter 1—Enter Mr. Sharp “Really these English newspapers are very well written,” the worthy doctor said to himself, as he leant back in a great leathern easy-chair. All his life Dr. Sarrasin had been given to soliloquizing, one of the many results of his absence of mind. He was a man of fifty, or thereabouts; his features were refined; clear lively eyes shone through his steel spectacles, and the expression of his countenance, although grave, was genial. He was one of those people: of whom one says at first sight, “That’s an honest man!” Notwithstanding the early hour, and his rather casual attire, the doctor had already shaved and put on a white tie. Scattered near him on the carpet and on a number of chairs, in the sitting-room of his Brighton hotel, lay copies of the Times, the Daily ……
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