Hermann Hagenström was the sort of imposing fellow familiar on the stock market of any great city; he was dressed in a thick, heavy fur coat that reached to his shoes and hung open to reveal a greenish yellow winter suit of durable English tweed. He was so extraordinarily fat that not only did he have a double-chin, but the whole lower half of his face was double as well, and his close-trimmed blond full beard could not hide the fact. When he frowned or raised his eyebrows in a certain way, thick folds appeared in the skin under his short-cropped hair. Drooping flatter than ever against his
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