Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 28, 2025
His horrid face is pustuled, his hands are like unclean dough, he is like a creature falling to pieces; yet he can show you pretty specimens of handwriting, and, if you will steady him by giving him a drink of ale, he will write your name on the edge of a newspaper in copper-plate characters or perform some analogous feat.
Slowly my memory aided me, and under that knobby, pustuled skin I traced the features of Dicky Nash, the most dreaded political journalist of my time. Often I had heard that voice roaring blasphemies with a vigour that no other man could equal; often had I seen that sturdy form extended beside the editorial chair, while the fumes in the office told tales as to the cause of the fall.
There were some sycophants who tittered at his stupid pleasantry; then the table fell silent to hear what answer I should make, and a frown sat like a thundercloud upon the brow of Cavalcanti. I toyed with my goblet, momentarily tempted to fling its contents in his pustuled face, and risk the consequences. But I bethought me of something else that would make a deadlier missile. "Alas!" I sighed.
Similarly I was no more than conscious of being forced to face the Duke by words that Cavalcanti was uttering. He was presenting me. "This, my lord, is Agostino d'Anguissola." I saw, as through a haze, the swarthy, pustuled visage frown down upon me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking