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alert to take promptly and irrevocably
the step^determined on. He thought out
any question before him with electrical
rapidity, and his decision on it was always
clearly formulated, and put into opera-
tion ere yet the fateful words were well
out of his mouth : and those familiar
with him knew beforehand, by the sudden
jerk of his left arm, with a snap of the
fore and middle Ungers backward or of his
right arm forward, whether the decision
was in the negative or the affirmative.
In either case he drew up his head
smiling [the angelic smile of an Italian
child], his eyes looking straight into your
eyes. When considering some public
benefaction his vote was invariably,—in
my experience,—in the affirmative : and
when he himself initiated the proposal,
he would on my suggestion at once cap
it with the requisite provision for worthy
architecture, a point I never failed to
insist on all my life in Bombay. He
never hesitated a moment. He was
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the step^determined on. He thought out
any question before him with electrical
rapidity, and his decision on it was always
clearly formulated, and put into opera-
tion ere yet the fateful words were well
out of his mouth : and those familiar
with him knew beforehand, by the sudden
jerk of his left arm, with a snap of the
fore and middle Ungers backward or of his
right arm forward, whether the decision
was in the negative or the affirmative.
In either case he drew up his head
smiling [the angelic smile of an Italian
child], his eyes looking straight into your
eyes. When considering some public
benefaction his vote was invariably,—in
my experience,—in the affirmative : and
when he himself initiated the proposal,
he would on my suggestion at once cap
it with the requisite provision for worthy
architecture, a point I never failed to
insist on all my life in Bombay. He
never hesitated a moment. He was
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