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Updated: May 15, 2025
Seeing how the matter stood, Akakiy Akakievitch decided that it would be necessary to take the cloak to Petrovitch, the tailor, who lived somewhere on the fourth floor up a dark stair-case, and who, in spite of his having but one eye, and pock-marks all over his face, busied himself with considerable success in repairing the trousers and coats of officials and others; that is to say, when he was sober and not nursing some other scheme in his head.
Both were silent for the most part, and the expression on Harry's face told that he was living again the days of the past, days when men were making those pock-marks in the hills, when the prospector and his pack jack could be seen on every trail, and when float ore in a gulley meant riches waiting somewhere above.
Years ago, before dairies were inspected as they are now, dairy maids often caught this disease from the cows they milked, so that their hands would break out with pock-marks. About a hundred years ago, a Dr.
The boughs cast green shades, which hurt the complexion of the girls who walked there; and a fringe of them which overhung Mr. Melbury's garden dripped on his seed-plots when it rained, pitting their surface all over as with pock-marks, till Melbury declared that gardens in such a place were no good at all.
The population of Dunchester, it is true, is smaller by over five thousand souls, and many of those who survive are not so good-looking as they were, but the gap is easily filled and pock-marks are not hereditary. Also, such a horror will never happen again, for now the law of compulsory vaccination is strong enough!
Nevertheless, the pock-marks smoothed out of his forehead, and he rose with a smile.
Even at that moment he felt angry at so coarse a version of his father's fault. "You mean," said he, "that we are apt to marry unwisely." "I do that," said the Governor. "There's no telling," said Philip, with a faint crack of his fingers; and the Governor frowned a little the pock-marks seemed to spread. "Of course, all this is outside my duty, Mr.
Even as children the very sight of Martha Browning's solemn face" Peregrine drew his countenance down into a portentous length "her horror at the slightest word or sport, her stiff broomstick carriage, all impelled me to the most impish tricks. And now letting alone that pock-marks have seamed her grim face till she is as ugly as Alecto she is a Precisian of the Precisians.
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