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His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion. 去书内
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    The host, a reserved man who rarely shows enthusiasm, expresses his quiet gladness at seeing the narrator through understated gestures—gesturing him to sit, offering cigars, indicating drinks, then observing him thoughtfully by the fire.

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