The coffee-room had no other occupant, that forenoon, than the gentleman in brown. his breakfast-table was drawn before the fire, and as he sat, with its light shining on him, waiting for the meal, he sat so still, that he might have been sitting for his portrait.
very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon under his flapped waist-coat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire. he had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close, and were of a fine texture. his shoes and buckles, too, though plain, were trim. he wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass. his linen, though not of a fineness in accordance with his stockings, was as white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighboring beach, or the specks of sail that glinted in the sunlight far at sea. a face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes. he had a healthy color in his cheeks, and his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. but, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in tellson's bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people; and perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
completing his resemblance to a man who was sitting for his portrait, mr. lorry dropped off to sleep. the arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it: "i wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day. she may ask for mr. jarvis lorry, or she may only ask for a gentleman from tellson's bank. to let me know."
"yes, sir. tellson's bank in london, sir? "
"yes." based on the details in this excerpt, which of the following best describes the gentleman?
a) a fussy and detail-oriented banker and businessman
b) a man who enjoys a good meal and is not concerned with others
c) a nice dresser who insists on getting his way with people's money
d) a plump and lazy man who makes a mess when he eats