it was stryver's grand peculiarity that he always seemed too big for any place, or space. he was so much too big for tellson's, that old clerks in distant corners looked up with looks of remonstrance, as though he squeezed them against the wall. the house itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the stryver head had been butted into its responsible waistcoat.