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Updated: June 8, 2025
One day your round cheeks will grow raddled, the light will fade from your brown eyes, and the scarlet from your lips. You will become feeble and bloated and inane a shivering satyr with a soul of lead. The sirens will sing to you, and you will not hear them. The shepherds will pipe to you, and you will not dance.
Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard, and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'être all behind. It would be splendid, dreadful, grotesque. "Oh, she'll have some good years they'll be worth having," Peter insisted as they went.
But just then an 'old Johnny' in a gown and long wig, looking awfully like a funny raddled woman, came through a door into the high pew opposite, and he had to uncross his legs hastily, and stand up with everybody else. 'Dartie versus Dartie! It seemed to Val unspeakably disgusting to have one's name called out like this in public!
Peter strolled along the viaduct Saturday and felt his youth beat in him pleasantly when he saw her come. She had on a different hat, and the earlier hour showed him the shining of her eyes above the raddled cheeks. "We could go down in the park a piece," he suggested as they turned in together along the parapet.
Over this part of the young gentleman's life, without implying the least harm to him for have not others been behind the scenes; and can there be any more dreary object than those whitened and raddled old women who shudder at the slips? over this stage of Clive Newcome's life we may surely drop the curtain.
She stepped into her little kitchen always a fairy kitchen, so tiny, so white, so raddled, and shining all over with that pleasantest of all effulgence burnished tins, pewters, and the homely decorations of the dresser and she looked all round and smiled pleasantly, and kissed old Tamar, and said
Once a week they went to Mass; once a week to the confessional, accompanied by an old nurse. They were happy since they had known no other life. It appeared to them a singular extravagance when, one day, a photographer was brought over from the county town and photographed them standing, all seven, in the shadow of an old apple tree with the grey lichen on the raddled trunk.
"A month's notice, if you please, sir, from to-day," said Dan'l, frowning angrily; but no one paid any heed to him, for the doctor had laid his hand upon Dexter's shoulder, and marched him off. "And I've never said nothing yet about our bees," grumbled Dan'l. "A young tyke! Raddled 'em up with a long stick on purpose to get me stung to death, he did, as is a massy I warn't. Well, a month to-day.
As if I were a ghost, or a goblin, instead of only an old woman with raddled cheeks and a wig. Oh, yes! I wear a wig, sir, and very hideous I look without it! But even I was young once upon a time many, many years ago, and quite as beautiful as She, indeed, rather more so, I think, and I should have treated you exactly as She did only more so, I mean Cleone.
Bingley the manager, who assumed all the chief tragic and comic parts except when he modestly retreated to make way for the London stars, who came down occasionally to Chatteris, was great in the character of the 'Stranger. He was attired in the tight pantaloons and Hessian boots which the stage legend has given to that injured man, with a large cloak and beaver and a hearse feather in it drooping over his raddled old face, and only partially concealing his great buckled brown wig.
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