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Her dark hair was newly streaked with grey. "Middle age," said Neville, and a cold hand was laid round her heart. "It had to come some time, and this illness has opened the door to it. Or shall I look young again when I'm quite well? No, never young again." She shivered. "I look like mother to-day.... I am like mother...." So youth and beauty were to leave her, too.
The lagoon was streaked with odd currents, which played across it like huge smooth finger-marks. The gondolas multiplied and spotted it allover; every gondola and gondolier looking, at a distance, precisely like every other. There is something strange and fascinating in this mysterious impersonality of the gondola.
"Almost act like they was skeered," whispered Cousin. "Coming in to be salted," I corrected as the horses swerved and galloped toward the block. Dicks was ambling along slowly and reverting to his song. The dog suddenly darted from the cabin and streaked after Dicks, a piece of rawhide trailing from his neck. As he ran he made a great outcry.
Six months later there limped out of Chihuahua hospital a discharged patient, wry-necked, crook-backed, with drawn features, and hair and beard streaked with gray. It was Dick Lane, restored to old physical strength, so far as the distortion of his spine, caused by his torture, permitted, and to the full possession of his mental faculties.
The man's eye was set, his cheek streaked with red, and his head was bandaged. He labored in breathing. Young Little looked at him gravely, and wondered whether this battered figure was really the man who had so nearly destroyed him. After some minutes of this contemplation, he said gravely "Simmons, I have brought you some wine." The man stared at him, and seemed confused. He made no reply.
My man Dick, too, somehow or another, constituted himself my groom and valet. And the Major was well contented with the arrangement. So we four, Major and Mrs. Buckley, Captain Brentwood and I, sat there in the old station night after night, playing our whist, till even my head, the youngest of the four, began to be streaked with grey, and sixteen years were past. It is March, 1856.
"Is that a portrait of the editor?" asked Howard, pointing to a grimed oil-painting, the only relief to the stretch of cracked and streaked white wall except a few ragged maps. "That oh, that is old man Stone the 'great condenser. He's there for a double purpose, as an example of what a journalist should be and as a warning of what a journalist comes to.
I cried breathlessly. "Smith! my God! where are you?" As if in answer to my cry came an indescribable sound, a mingled sobbing and choking. Out from the shadows staggered a ghastly figure that of a man whose face appeared to be streaked. His eyes glared at me madly and he mowed the air with his hands like one blind and insane with fear. I started back; words died upon my tongue.
And by my advice Jabez fled out of the suller door and streaked it for home cross lots, for I feared that my beloved pardner might be led by his righteous wrath, even into salt and buttery.
The victory was hers, and I, her prize, passed a whole day in different conveyances, the last of which landed us miles away from London, at the gates of an old drooping, mossed and streaked farmhouse, that was like a wall-flower in colour.
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