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One morning Itzig ran as fast as his shuffling legs would bear him, up the dirty lane that led to his abode, and fell rather than walked into the low door that led into his hut. His wife was engaged in washing a baby the seventh and Beile, an ill-favored, sallow-complexioned girl, sat at the window sewing. "Jentele," cried Itzig, sinking into a chair, "God has been good to us!"
Looking around, Phil saw that the speaker was a sallow-complexioned young man, with black hair and mustache, a loose black felt hat, crushed at the crown, giving him rather a rakish look. "Yes, sir," answered Phil politely. "Stranger in the city, I expect?" "Yes, sir." "Never mind the sir. I ain't used to ceremony. I am Signor Orlando." "Signor Orlando!" repeated Phil, rather puzzled.
The sallow-complexioned, foreign-looking youth glanced keenly about him before replying, looked at his watch, and then remarked: "Close upon half-past one lunch-time; and this London air of yours has given me a most voracious appetite.
In turning the corner of the Place du Bouffay he ran into a slightly built, sallow-complexioned gentleman very neatly dressed in black, wearing a tie-wig under a round hat. The man fell back at sight of him, levelling a spy-glass, then hailed him in a voice that rang with amazement. "Moreau! Where the devil have you been hiding your-self these months?"
Fargus, who sat by her side a mute little figure lost in Comte. Mr. Fargus' sallow-complexioned face was always opposite her; he uttered commonplaces in a loud voice, and Mildred longed to fling herself from the carriage. At last, unable to bear with reality, she chattered, laughed, and told stories and joked until her morose friends wondered at her happiness.
With this view of the times predominant among the tradespeople at Grimworth, their uncertainty concerning the nature of the business which the sallow-complexioned stranger was about to set up in the vacant shop, naturally gave some additional strength to the fears of the less sanguine.
Leaning across the bar, exchanging sallies with a giggling barmaid, was a lean, sallow-complexioned man, whose rusty, reddish brown hair was sufficient justification for his nickname. "Hello, Ike," said the newcomer, adjusting himself to a high stool. "How's things?" "Hello, Dutch. Thought you got stuck the other side of the town. What are you going to have?"
At the period of this history, he was clerk to Sir Hugh Hammersley, alderman. The third person, a minor canon of Saint Paul's, named Thomas Quatremain, was a grave, sallow-complexioned man, with a morose and repulsive physiognomy. He was habited in the cassock of a churchman of the period, and his black velvet cap lay beside him on the table.
If Peggy had known that this man Ned Jarring by name was to be a passenger, she would have prevailed on her husband to go by another vessel; but she was not aware of it until they met in the fore-cabin the day after leaving port. Being a dark-haired, sallow-complexioned man, he soon became known on board by the name of Black Ned.
Then, without moving his head: "There's that chap Jerrold of the Wire behind us. Has he got any idea of what we're on?" Foyle wheeled sharply, and confronted a thin-faced, sallow-complexioned man with a wisp of black hair creeping from under his hat, and with sharp, penetrating, humorous eyes.
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