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And yet his feeling was not clear; in the partial wreck of his mind, which was leaning to decay, some after-thought was strongly present. As he gazed in Mr. Archer's face a sudden brightness would kindle in his rheumy eyes, his eye-brows would lift as with a sudden thought, his mouth would open as though to speak, and close again on silence. Once or twice he even called Mr.
Martin sighed and slipped from the window ledge, shaking down his wrinkled, high-water pants. "Yes," he sighed, a sudden wistfulness coming into his rheumy eyes. "Things have been pretty slow around here. Chicago used to be the place for a juror none better. But I been thinkin' of going west. Not that I heard anything, mind you, about any of these cases." Mr. Martin glowered virtuously.
The old occupation, the monotonous, restful miles of road sweeping back under the wheels, the pleasant, casual detachment of the passengers, the pride of accomplishment, irresistibly appealed to him. Valentine Simmons' rheumy eyes interrogated him doubtfully above the fixed, dry color of his fallen cheeks. "By God, Valentine!" Gordon exclaimed, "I'll do it, I'll drive her, and right, too.
But if his intention was to charge Molembrais with his cowardly attempt on the boy's life it was baulked. At the door Michel met him, his rheumy eyes still blinking from his drunken sleep. "Where is that fellow who took your place?" "That's what I want to know, master. Took my place, did he? I'd place him, I would, making an old man drunk to rob him of his bread." "Who was he?"
'I sat down with silver plate every Sunday, said he, 'and pictures on the wall. I have made enough money to be rolling in my carriage. But, sir, looking at me unsteadily with his bright rheumy eyes, 'I was troubled with a drunken wife. He took a hostile view of matrimony in consequence. 'It's an old saying, he remarked: 'God made 'em, and the devil he mixed 'em.
In Brodie's hands, which were twice the size of an ordinary man's, was a little wooden box, to which Honeycutt's rheumy eyes were glued with frantic despair. Evidently the box had only now been taken from its hiding-place under a loose board in the floor; the board lay tossed to one side, and Brodie's legs straddled the opening.
He was an old-looking rather than an old man, with rheumy eyes that looked through narrow slits, and a big unshapely nose; the skin of his face was brown and crinkled like a dried-up bladder; his whole appearance as a man was mean and paltry. What distinction he had was given him by gorgeous clothing and the attendance of a pompous ass in a flaming livery.
But as to the persons that were attached to these noses, fancy any distortion, protuberance, and fungous embellishment that can be produced in the human form by high and gross feeding, by the bloating operations of malt liquors, and by the rheumy influence of a damp, foggy, vaporous climate.
"I am, sir," responded the man solemnly. "Very well; consider the business done, so far as I am concerned, and clear out." "I am the most miserable of men, Mr. Belcher." "I believe you; and you'll excuse me if I say that your appearance corroborates your statement." "And you don't recognize me? Is it possible?" And the maudlin tears came into the man's rheumy eyes and rolled down his cheeks.
Tamara with difficulty sought out a bald, ancient old man, grown over as though with bog moss by entangled gray bristles; with little rheumy eyes and an enormous, reddish, dark-blue granulous nose, on the manner of a cookie. He unlocked the enormous hanging lock, pushed away the bolt and opened the rusty, singing door.
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