the stryver clerk, who never assisted at these conferences, had gone home, and the stryver principal opened the door. he had his slippers on, and a loose bed-gown, and his throat was bare for his greater ease. he had that rather wild, strained, seared marking about the eyes, which may be observed in all free livers of his class, from the portrait of jeffries downward, and which can be traced, under various disguises of art, through the portraits of every drinking age.