... Our Mutual Friend BOOK I On the Look Out The Man From Somewhere ... question whether he was Veneering's oldest friend, or newest friend To the excogitation of this problem, the harmless gentleman had devoted many anxious hours, both in his lodgings over the livery ... in the Twemlow; fourteen in company all told Four pigeon-breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall A fifth retainer, proceeding up the staircase with a mournful air as who...