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Finally she lifted it But immediately she shivered and acted so strangely that Miss Terry thought she was about to break the toy in pieces on the steps or throw it into the street. Evidently she detested the sight of it. Just then up came a second woman with two small boys hanging at her skirts. They were ragged and sick-looking.
Carew she made two visits to Jamie, and greatly did she rejoice at the changed conditions she found there after "that man Dodge" had "tended to things." But this, to Pollyanna, was a mere drop in the bucket. There were yet all those other sick-looking men, unhappy-looking women, and ragged children out in the street Jamie's neighbors. Confidently she looked to Mrs. Carew for help for them, also.
As she hurries along the street on a rainy night she may hear a sharp cry of pain from a sick-looking girl whose arm is being brutally wrenched by a rough man, and if she stops for a moment she catches his muttered threats in response to the girl's pleading "that it is too bad a night for street work."
Here the Student lived like a lord for Bermondsey! For he possessed two flats, one for his "butler" a sick-looking young man in list slippers, and his wife and family and the other for himself.
I only just remember him in Ashurst, though I recall Mrs. Forsythe perfectly: a tall, sick-looking lady, with an amiably melancholy face, and three puffs of hair on each side of it." "Except that the puffs are white now, she is just the same," Gifford answered. "As for her son, I don't know anything about him.
Mary had jumped up on the small stage and was talking with a group of young men and women. He moved to follow, but hesitated. He didn't have the hang of this kind of thing. The sick-looking youths loitering around, casually embracing the gals and rubbing their arms, seemed to know the lingo. Charlie sat down in disgust and yielded himself to a feeling of stiffly superior virtue.
After that, the watchers began to melt away. "We'd better shift to another territory," Murdoch decided. Gordon realized that the gang had figured that concentrating the police here meant other territories would be safe. Two more groups were given the treatment. In the third one, Bruce Gordon spotted one of the men who'd been beaten before. He was a sick-looking spectacle. Murdoch nodded.
It was perhaps seven months after he had told Eunice that he endowed her with all his worldly goods she not suspecting what the parcel contained that he came to me unexpectedly one afternoon with a face so long and sick-looking that my finger was on the button and I was ordering brandy and soda before he had time to speak. "Reggie," he said, "an awful thing has happened.
If you turn, you'll tumble into ours; and how will you get up? Won't I catch your foot!" "No bath!" exclaimed Estelle; "only two small basins! And what a looking-glass! it makes one squint!" "It is better than the ladies' cabin," said Fleda, dolefully, "with the stewardess sitting there, and two or three sick-looking people, and the berths all open like the shelves of a bookcase."
But it mattered little how it had come about. The result was the thing. Blenham would never see with his right eye again. They did what they could for Blenham which was but little and let him go when he was ready. Before daylight he had ridden away, dead white, sick-looking, and wordless save for his parting words in a strangely quiet voice "I'll get all three of you for this, s'elp me!"
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