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What am I besides a meddler, and a stupid old idiot, and an old fool?" "You're a gray-headed maniac, and a a zinc-fastened Zany. A doddering dotard and a chimerical chump," I said. "Splendid!" roared he, with a spasm of laughter that seemed nearly to rend him. "Go on. Keep it up. I am enjoying myself hugely." "You're a sneak-livered poltroon to treat me this way," I added, indignantly.
From the west to the east, There is no quiet place of abiding. Many are the distresses I meet with; Very urgent is the trouble on our borders. Heaven is sending down death and disorder, And That is, the war-chariots, each drawn by its team of four horses. The young and able-bodied of the people were slain or absent on distant expeditions, and only old and gray-headed men were to be seen.
Around the pulpit, and behind the communion-table, sat the elders of the church, reverend, gray-headed, leathern-visaged men, whom I regarded with awe, as so many apostles. They were stern in their sanctity, kept a vigilant eye upon my giggling companions and myself, and shook a rebuking finger at any boyish device to relieve the tediousness of compulsory devotion.
He had pored over these old volumes so intensely that they seemed to have been reflected into his countenance; which, if the face be indeed an index of the mind, might be compared to a title-page of black-letter. On reaching the church-porch we found the parson rebuking the gray-headed sexton for having used mistletoe among the greens with which the church was decorated.
"Now we'll have a rubber at dummy," said Captain Vignolles. Major Moody was a gray-headed old man of about sixty, who played his cards with great attention, and never spoke a word, either then or at any other period of his life. He was the most taciturn of men, and was known not at all to any of his companions.
Leithcourt and her husband, a tall, thin, gray-headed, well-dressed man, both came forward to greet us, and after a few introductions I joined a set at tennis. They were a merry crowd. The Leithcourts were entertaining a large house-party, and their hospitality was on a scale quite in keeping with the fine old place they rented.
"That's Brinkerhoff, the big gun," young Bliss whispered to Isabelle, indicating a gentle, gray-headed, smooth-shaven man, who seemed to be taking a nap behind his closed eyes. The judge himself was lolling back listlessly, while several men in front of him talked back and forth colloquially.
The musician was an old gray-headed negro, who had been the itinerant orchestra of the neighborhood for more than half a century. His instrument was as old and battered as himself.
A little flutter of leaves like a clapping of hands marked land enough to support black poplars, and we rounded a crumbly sand bank just in time to see the seven-banded birch canoe of a little old hunter, Sam Ba'tiste Buck eighty years old he was squatting in the bottom of the birch canoe, ragged almost to nakedness, bare of feet, gray-headed, nearly toothless but happier than an emperor the first living being we had seen for a week in the muskegs.
The good Germans in Sarepta received the Tartars with great joy. One gray-headed man of eighty-three came to meet them, leaning upon his staff. He said he had been praying that he might see a Christian Tartar before he died. He heard these Tartars sing hymns to the praise of Jesus, and he felt his prayers were answered. Two days afterwards he died.
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