He bowed, and I did not dispute the mandate, although I would rather have remained with her, and got to know something of the nature that lay behind those grey passionless fea tures, than turn to the society of that smug looking young gentleman who waited so respectfully, like a machine whose mainspring was awe.
Having introduced us, she desired him to act as cicerone to me until I was tired.  He bowed, and I did not dispute the mandate, although I would rather have remained with her, and got to know something of the nature that lay behind those grey passionless fea tures, than turn to the society of that smug looking young gentleman who waited so respectfully, like a machine whose mainspring was awe.  I accompanied him nevertheless, and he showed me part of the Schloss, and en deavoured in the intervals of his tolerably arduous task of cicerone to make himself agreeable to me.