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looking neither to the right nor to the left, and making himself appear taller than he was, althogh he was not a short man. He made himself look very tall and very impressive as he walked out with his head in the air. His nose was ever so slightly repousse, but he held it up. I think it was the combination of the holding it up and the natural repousse that made him look as though he smelled something.

At any rate, he looked very disdainful. He looked very much as though he wasn't looking to the right or left and was just going out, and as though he certainly was somebody. I remember in my own mind having a picture once of him with flowing robes and ermine capes on, with some kind of a headdress indicating authority upon his head. It was possible to think of him in almost cartoon forms as a man assuming the purple. A Roman emperor could have looked like that when he strutted into the circus maximus.

As soon as he stepped off the elevator and into the corridor all traffic stopped. Everybody just stopped short wherever they were. People would stop, look and whisper, “That's Seabury. There's Seabury.” Everybody stopped short, whether they were the baker's boy come to get an order, or whether they were a window cleaner seeking to get a permit to insure his employees, or whether they were a man on crutches looking for the Compensation Bureau to see when he





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