eye-wandering

Updated: July 12, 2025

Old Puddifoot, with all sorts of nods, winks and murmurs, alluded to mysterious medical secrets, and "how much he could tell an' he would," and that "he had said years ago about Brandon...." Well, never mind what he had said, but it was all turning out exactly as, for years, he had expected. Brandon might have been all his days the odd, muttering, eye-wandering figure that he now appeared.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral