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Updated: May 11, 2025
They were passing a dingy-looking empty house, with a large broken window. Just then, Ben Letts, accompanied by Ezra Longman, met them. The red head of the squatter girl rose a little higher, the lines growing deeper about the narrowed lids. To the fisherman she deigned no good-morrow, nor had she a thought of them after they had passed.
Having satisfied himself, by mathematical calculation, that the apartment was about equal in annual value to the freehold of a small street in the suburbs of London, he took to wondering what possible temptation could have induced a dingy-looking fly that was crawling over his pantaloons, to come into a close prison, when he had the choice of so many airy situations a course of meditation which led him to the irresistible conclusion that the insect was insane.
Curtis answered, and Kelson, taking it for granted that the terms were synonymous, at once headed for their garret. "Don't walk so confoundedly fast," Curtis gasped; "this pain in my side is like a hundred stitches rolled in one. It fairly doubles me up. Ease down a bit, for heaven's sake!" Kelson obeyed, and presently came to a dead halt before a dingy-looking restaurant.
Twenty minutes later we alighted before a dingy-looking barber's shop and inquired for Mr. Harding an assistant who was at that moment shaving a customer of the working class. It was a house where one could be shaved for a penny, but where the toilet accessories were somewhat primitive.
Our attention was attracted to a youth in spectacles, dressed in a rich plum-coloured coat, on the outside of a dingy-looking, big-headed, brown nag, which he was flogging and cramming along the public walk in front of the "Dolphin," in the most original and ludicrous manner.
"I've got him now!" cried Bob excitedly; and, rising from a stooping position, in which his shoulder was right underneath, he threw a dingy-looking little fresh-water lobster into the boat. Dexter examined it wonderingly, and was favoured with a nip from its claws for his attention. "Here's another," said Bob, and he threw one much larger into the boat, its horny shell rattling on the bottom.
There is a plain back street near the Haymarket, bearing the title of Great Windmill Street, in which there is a large, dingy-looking house standing somewhat detached, and not appearing to be in the hands of ordinary tenants.
At this moment Mr. Roderick Birch opened the outer hall door. "As usual," was his smiling comment, as he laid aside hat and overcoat and joined the circle. "Charlotte's latest?" Charlotte herself undid the wrappings, wondering what the gift could be. She disclosed a long piece of dingy-looking metal. "A new shingle for Andy!" cried Jeff.
The staircase of the mill ascended from the entrance at the western end, which faced into a wide, dingy-looking street, consisting principally of public-houses, pawnbrokers' shops, rag and bone warehouses, and dirty provision shops. The other, the east end of the factory, fronted into a very narrow back street, not twenty feet wide, and miserably lighted and paved.
The sea was not what could be called rough, but merely choppy and fretful, with short waves that would not have troubled a larger craft. The steamer proved to be a small, undistinguished dingy-looking boat, more like a commercial tramp than a government vessel.
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