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Perhaps a few words from you might have effect. She looked, whilst thus speaking, at her weak, consumptive-looking husband, who was seated by the fireplace with a large green baize-covered Bible open before him on a round table.
Never even in those East End back-rooms where the pitiful disproportion of his consumptive-looking collaborators to their great task was sometimes borne in dismally upon him had he felt so black a despair as in this brilliant supper-room, surrounded by all that was strong and strenuous in the race lawyers and soldiers, and men of affairs, whose united forces and finances could achieve almost anything they set their heart upon.
It pleased him almost to childishness to find how easily he could listen and even talk to the oiled and crimpy little barber, and to the pretty, consumptive-looking, print-dressed baker's wife. Whatever his face might now be conniving at, the Arthur Lawford of last week could never have hob-nobbed so affably with his social 'inferiors.
Imagine my excitement when there came in a very beautiful girl, a tremendously interesting girl, about one-and-twenty just the kind of girl that most strongly appeals to me; dark, pale, rather consumptive-looking, slender no, there's no describing her; there really isn't! You must wait till you see her. 'I hope the consumption was only a figure of speech, remarked Biffen in his grave way.
The two men pretended meanwhile for half an hour to outsit each other conveniently; and the end at that rate might have been distant had not the tension in some degree yielded to the arrival of a friend of M. de Mauves a tall pale consumptive-looking dandy who filled the air with the odour of heliotrope.
But the interest was no more than a vaguely-expectant suspense: the consumptive-looking Jew, apparently a fervid student of some kind, getting his crust by a quiet handicraft, like Spinoza, fitted into none of Deronda's anticipations. It was otherwise with the effect of their meeting on Mordecai.
She started, changed countenance, and got up to pay at once. "Why, there's another o' them half-crowns o' yourn, Bessie," said a consumptive-looking girl in a bedraggled hat and feathers, as Mrs. Costrell handed her coin to the landlord. "Wheriver do yer get 'em?" "If yer don't ask no questions, I won't tell yer no lies," said Bessie, with quick impudence.
She started, changed countenance, and got up to pay at once. 'Why, there's another o' them half-crowns o' yourn, Bessie, said a consumptive-looking girl in a bedraggled hat and feathers, as Mrs. Costrell handed her coin to the landlord. 'Wheriver do yer get 'em? 'If yer don't ask no questions, I won't tell yer no lies, said Bessie, with quick impudence.
When I came in sight of the men, working in scattered gangs that fine morning, there was, as might be expected, a visible difference between their motions and those of trained "navvies" engaged upon the same kind of labour. There were also very great differences of age and physical condition amongst them old men and consumptive-looking lads, hardly out of their teens.
A little time ago this painter was a consumptive-looking literary hack, and is still a philologist, with eyes a bit dim from too much reading, and subject to frantic melancholy; a liker of solitude and of men and women who do not disturb it, but a man accustomed to men and very well able to deal with them. The last words of "The Romany Rye" narrative are: "I shouldn't wonder if Mr.
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