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"That they are, father," replied the girl; "but I am a little tired; and if Angus is coming to help you, and you do not want anything more from me, I will go to bed myself." "Do that," said the Squire. "Your voice sounds peaky; you have been doing too much." Nora lingered another moment or two. How thankful she felt that that smoky lamp prevented her father reading the anxiety in her eyes!
It's that makes her bitter. She's jest like her only prettier. The same peaky nose, pointed chin, little thin ears set close to her head, fine hair the Yankee school-marm. First-rate managin' women; the best wives in the world to keep a house an' help a man on. But they hain't got sensuality enough to be properly affectionate."
"It is a long time since I looked you up," I admitted. He scrutinized me attentively by the light of the entry lamp, and then remarked: "Fetter Lane doesn't seem to be agreeing with you very well, my son. You are looking quite thin and peaky." "Well, I've nearly done with it. Barnard will be back in about ten days.
This he buttoned tightly up, in spite of the extreme closeness of the night, and finished his attire by putting on a rabbit-skin cap with hanging lappets which covered the ears, so that no part of him was visible save his mobile and peaky face. "My health is somewhat fragile," he remarked, as he led the way down the passage. "I am compelled to be a valetudinarian."
Bates, the north-country gardener, would have become regimentals 'a fain saight' better than the 'peaky' features and slight form of Captain Wybrow, notwithstanding that this young gentleman, as Sir Christopher's nephew and destined heir, had the strongest hereditary claim on the gardener's respect, and was undeniably 'clean-limbed'. But alas! human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.
"Good afternoon, my dear," she said, making a peck at Kitty's cheek. "That flunkey, idling his life away on the hall mat, said I should find you here, so I saved him from overwork by showing myself in. How are you, St. John? You're looking a bit peaky this afternoon, aren't you?" "It's old age beginning to tell," laughed Lord St. John, shaking hands. "Old age? Fiddlesticks!"
She was unremitting, too, in her efforts to recover the lost children, and began to look quite peaky about the face and lined round the mouth. As to Uncle William, he preached nothing but old sermons, finding it beyond his powers to devote his attention to anything fresh or new.
But women are women all the world over; a black lady nursed Mungo Park, when he was abandoned by the world; and a charitable she-Samaritan crowded to make room for a disconsolate wayfarer. I felt very much as the nigger's parrot at New York did. Blacky was selling a parrot, and a gentleman asked him what the bird could do. Could he speak well? "No, massa; no peaky at all." "Can he sing?"
Numbers of English and some Austrians were chiseled, he affirmed showing their race but very few of other nations. Now some people would have said the Lady Ethelrida was too chiseled she might grow peaky, with old age. But no one could deny the extreme refinement of the young woman. She was strikingly fair, with silvery light hair that had no yellow in it; and kind, wise, gray eyes.
"What on earth's the matter? Dreaming? Then depend on it you've eaten something that's disagreed with you." How she dragged her legs back to school that morning, Laura never knew. At the sight of the great stone building her inner disturbance was such that she was nearly sick. Even the unobservant Marina was forced to a remark. "You do look a bit peaky. I'm sure your stomach's out of order.
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