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It seemed to me that she gave me rather a jaundiced look as I hove in sight, but this, having so recently beheld Tuppy in his agony, I attributed to the fact that she, like him, had been going light on the menu. You can't expect an empty aunt to beam like a full aunt. "Oh, it's you, is it?" she said. Well, it was, of course. "Where's Angela?" I asked. "Gone to bed." "Already?"
She loved children, but Tibby was not an ingratiating child. He was a Mr Mariner in little. He had the family gloom. It puzzled Jill sometimes why this branch of the family should look on life with so jaundiced an eye. She remembered her father as a cheerful man, alive to the small humors of life. "All right, Tibby. Where shall we go?" "Ma says we must keep on the roads and I mustn't slide."
Another lady. Complexion, old parchment. Another. Pink and white, very fine. Man. Grayish skin, with purple areas. Man. Unwholesome fish-belly skin. Girl. Sallow face, sprinkled with freckles. Old woman. Face whitey-gray. Young butcher. Face a general red flush. Jaundiced man mustard yellow. Elderly lady. Colorless skin, with two conspicuous moles. Elderly man a drinker.
These found a fitting climax in that anonymous Letter to Silvio Savelli, published in Germany which at the time, be it borne in mind, was extremely inimical to the Pope, viewing with jaundiced eyes his ever-growing power, and stirred perhaps to this unspeakable burst of venomous fury by the noble Este alliance, so valuable to Cesare in that it gave him a friend upon the frontier of his Romagna possessions.
Pale, jaundiced, and crumpled, they have all the sea-sick look and haggard cheek of the real martyr all except one, a stout, swarthy, brown-visaged man, of about forty, with a frame of iron, and a voice like the fourth string of a violincello.
Now he was prepared for the fury of a jaundiced, self-willed old man, who could ill brook being thwarted. He had quickly imagined it all, and not without reason, for surely a furious disdain was at the grey lips, lines of anger were corrugating the forehead, the rugose parchment face was fiery with distemper. But what Philip expected did not come to pass.
Bailey plied the handkerchief on his streaming forehead. The heat of the day and the horror of this conversation were reducing his weight at the rate of ounces a minute. In his most jaundiced mood he had never imagined these frightful sentiments to be lurking in Ruth's mind. "You can't mean that!" he cried. "I mean every word of it," said Ruth.
Once, when a miserable-looking dyspeptic called upon a leading physician, and laid his case before him, "Oh!" said the doctor, "you only want a good hearty laugh: go and see Grimaldi." "Alas!" said the miserable patient, "I am Grimaldi!" So, when Smollett, oppressed by disease, traveled over Europe in the hope of finding health, he saw everything through his own jaundiced eyes.
The middle-class merchant or clerk from the big towns is repugnant to me, whether well or ill. I would exchange a curt salute with those liverish parties and go my way on my old nag. One afternoon I was sitting in a wild part of the mountain, among big birch-trees, when a pair of strangers approached the spot where I was. They were not of the jaundiced and disagreeable type of the valetudinarians.
Then she laid it aside with another, and sighed a weary, "Heigh-ho, those are done. Here I have to work my fingers to the bone making shirts for him, just because mommy says he has n't enough clothes," a sentence which perhaps partly accounted for the maiden's somewhat jaundiced view of Charles. "Are those for him?" cried Tabitha. "Why didst thou not tell me? I would have helped thee with them."
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