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"My hair is growing very grey;" and to show that it was so, he lifted the dark lock from the side of his forehead, and displayed the incipient grizzling of the hair from behind. "If grey hairs make an old man, Alice, you will marry an old husband; but even you shall not be allowed to say that my heart is old." That word "husband," which her cousin had twice used, was painful to Alice's ear.
He did not, however, neglect to leave certain matters to future consideration, which had necessitated further visits, so that the little back room had become quite accustomed to his spare, not unsolid, but unobtrusive figure, and his pale, chinny face with clipped moustache and dark hair not yet grizzling at the sides.
And the lawyer, remembering the handsome hollow-eyed boy of twenty who had first asked his help, studied with irrepressible curiosity the man's noble storm-beaten look and fast grizzling hair, as David sat before him with his head bent and his hat in his hands. They talked a while longer, and then David said, rising: 'Can I get over there to-night? The snow will be deep in the forest.
Some had sailed with money, to purchase land in the southern colony, some were provided only with their hopes and sinews; but California was an irresistible temptation to them all, and by general desire, they had come to try their luck at the washing. We had mere boys and men of grizzling hair in our company.
"Oh, Lady Gwendolen, I can't stand this," was Adrian's exclamation in a tone of real distress. "Why why should I make you miserable and lay you awake o' nights? I couldn't help your finding out, perhaps. But what a selfish beast I am to go on grizzling about my own misfortune.... Well I have been grizzling!
She called him by name and told him the hour, but hers was the only voice she heard, and it sounded strangely to her in the shadows of the staircase. Then, muttering, "Poor gentleman, he had the toothache last night; and p'r'aps he's only just got a wink o' sleep. Pity to disturb him for the sake of them grizzling conductors. Half-past seven came and she knocked again. But Constant slept on.
The other was a short, grizzling, thick-set man, from forty-five to fifty, dressed in tweed with a knitted spencer, and the red ribbon of a decoration in his button-hole. This last was a hard person to classify. He was an old soldier, who had seen service and risen to the rank of commandant; and he retained some of the brisk decisive manners of the camp.
Steps in the passage made her note subconsciously that Ned had arrived Jerry had been in the house for the past three weeks, with a sprained wrist. And at this moment her younger brother himself entered the room, Trotty throned on his shoulder. Picking his steps round the sea of stuff, Jerry sat down and lowered Trotty to his knee. "Ned's grizzling for tea."
With a deep sigh that was almost a passionate exclamation, she once again gave way to her uncontrollable restlessness. "Sally!" came the grizzling voice of Gaga. "What?" she shouted, past all self-restraint. "You're fidgetting!" "Well! Who wouldn't? You groaning groaning groaning. Enough to make anybody fidget. Why, you're making me sick!
One could be amused where a daughter was concerned; in a wife's case one could not be amused. To see June set her heart and jaw on a thing until she got it was all right, because it was never anything which interfered fundamentally with Jolyon's liberty the one thing on which his jaw was also absolutely rigid, a considerable jaw, under that short grizzling beard.
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