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Updated: May 15, 2025
Shelton was in town; and, though it was the first of June, sat warming her feet before a fire; her face, with its pleasant colour, was crow's-footed like the little barber's, but from optimism, not rebellion. She, smiled when she saw her son; and the wrinkles round her eyes twinkled, with vitality. "Well, my dear boy," she said, "it's lovely to see you. And how is that sweet girl?"
The poor fellow looked twenty years older than when Ned had seen him last; he was wasted almost to the condition of a skeleton. The skin of his forehead and the outer corners of his eye-sockets was furrowed and wrinkled and crow's-footed like that of an old man of eighty; and his hair was thickly streaked with grey.
Though not broad, that brow was the broadest part of a narrow oval face whose length was increased by a short, dark, pointed beard a visage such as Vandyk might have painted, grave and gentle, but for its bright grey eyes, cinder-lashed and crow's-footed, and its strange look of not seeing what was before it.
He held out a telegram in a shaky hand. "Margery up at Green's Hotel. Go and see her at once. And while George read the General looked at his nephew with eyes that were ringed by little circles of darker pigment, and had crow's-footed purses of skin beneath, earned by serving his country in tropical climes. "What's the meaning of it?" he said. "Go and see her? Of course, I'll go and see her!
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