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The little boys began to call themselves young men, and me an old bach; and into this character I contentedly settled down. My wild oats, of which I had had but scant measure, I considered sown. My sense of my own ill-looks became morbid. I hardly looked at a female except my mother, lest she'd think that I "could suppose." The old set were mostly married off. Eleanor married the young sailor.
She spoke of his ill-looks kindly and with some apprehension. "I am all right," he assured her, "but a little dull. Take pity on me and come out to dinner one night this week." They dined in the annex of a fashionable restaurant practically out of doors a cool green lawn for a carpet and a fountain playing close at hand. Mary wore a white dinner-gown, gossamer-like and airy.
But, since incivility is all I am likely to get for my pains in coming to acquaint you with it, e'en find it out yourself." "Hold!" cried the apprentice, detaining him; "I meant no offence. Step indoors for a moment. We can converse there more freely." The watchman, who, notwithstanding his ill-looks, appeared to be a good-natured fellow, was easily appeased.
'After leaving Falkenborg we experienced a great change in the character of the people. Kindness and honesty were changed for ill-looks and petty extortions. On a bridge between Moruss and Asa, the woman who kept it and our drivers charged a double toll, and drank the overplus in schnapps before our faces!
The ill-looks of the young girls surprised him much. Here and there smiled a plump rosy face enough; but the majority seemed under-sized, under-fed, utterly wanting in grace, vigour, and what the penny-a-liners call 'rude health. He remarked it to Tregarva. The keeper smiled mournfully. 'You see those little creatures dragging home babies in arms nearly as big as themselves, sir.
It was unlikely that the doctor should fear death; and yet that was what Utterson was tempted to suspect. "Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear." And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill-looks, it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
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