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Holland in George Yard, I cheered him with answers to his many inquiries as to the placing out of his rescued ones. "Many a warm shake of the hand I had from poor costermongers and grey-headed men, for what had been done for their belongings in taking them from the sin and want around.
Weiss unlocked and threw open the office door, and a moment later returned with a tall, grey-headed man, with closely cropped beard and gold-rimmed eyeglasses. He shook hands with Vine warmly, and nodded to Littleson. "What, you here in the lion's den, Vine?" he remarked, smiling. "Be careful or they will eat you up." Vine smiled.
Arthur smote his breast, and struck a fierce and warlike attitude, "that sword is mine! In the days to come, when you are old and grey-headed, you will see that rusty blade hanging over my ancestral hearth, and tell in faltering tones the story of the gallant youth who wrested it from his opponents." "Ha, ha!" responded Peggy deeply.
He was a serious man, with a short moustache, grey-headed, with three or four gold teeth. What to Caesar seemed wonderful in this gentleman was his economy of words.
The girl left him, to return a few minutes later with grey-headed old Kanka, who in response to an inquiring look from his master, bent his head and said slowly "'Tis a strange ship one that never before have we seen in Lele." The youth made him no answer. He merely raised his arm and pointed his finger at the three messengers. "Then they have lied to me. Bring them here to me."
The curate, a grey-headed clergyman, who had been a confessor in the days of Queen Mary, sat with a book in his hand in another recess in the apartment. He, too, signed a mournful greeting to Tressilian, and laid his book aside, to watch the effect his appearance should produce on the afflicted old man.
The grey-headed Domenico Cennini laughed no less heartily than the younger men, and Nello was triumphantly secure of the general admiration. "Aha!" he exclaimed, snapping his fingers when the first burst of laughter was subsiding. "I have cleared my piazza of that unsavoury fly-trap, mi pare.
They were not Herculean individuals: several of them were mere youths. Some of the all-rounders were grey-headed men, but there was about them all a freshness and ruddiness which showed that their somewhat severe regimen agreed with them.
The ships were gazetted there as the Esperanza and her consort, that the news of it getting to England before we did might prepare the beloved family in some degree for what was in store. Once more we will return to that pretty drawing-room, and visit the kind sisters, the grey-headed father, the loving mother.
"They have brave men in Virginia: it was not an old, grey-headed man entering Harper's Ferry that they were afraid of, it was the John Brown in every man's own conscience that made them tremble." He achieved an equal success of a different kind soon after, in attempting to deliver the same speech in New York city.
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