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'That was about as good a speech as I've heard for a long time, Mr. Hewett, he began by observing. 'I like to hear a man speak as if he meant it. John looked up with a leaden, rheumy eye, but the compliment pleased him, and in a moment he smiled vacantly. 'I haven't said my last word yet, he replied, with difficulty making himself audible through his hoarseness.
You never know what you may have to say to your men. For pity's sake, try to stand up without leanin' against each other, you blear-eyed, herrin'-gutted gutter-snipes. It's no pleasure to me to comb you out. That ought to have been done before you came here, you you militia broom-stealers." "The old touch the old touch. We know it," said Keyte, wiping his rheumy eyes.
Women taking liquor: Skepsey had a vision of his wife with rheumy peepers and miauly mouth, as he had once beheld the creature: Oh! they need discipline not such would we have for the mothers of our English young. Decidedly the women of principle are bound to enter wedlock; they should be bound by law.
She was not aware that when she dropped in to talk to old Doby, his neighbour, old Megworth, peered from behind his curtains, with the dew of envy in his rheumy eyes. "S'ems," he mumbled, "as if they wasn't nobody now in Stornham village but Gaarge Doby s'ems not." They were very fierce in their jealousy of attention, and one must beware of rousing evil passions in the octogenarian breast.
Here and there you will even see venerable greybeards suffering from rheumy coughs who ought to be at home; and though occasionally there is a lithe youngster in European clothes with the veneer he acquired abroad not yet completely rubbed off, the total impression is that of oldish men who have reached years of maturity and who are as representative of the country and as good as the country is in a position to-day to provide.
Her rheumy eyes glared affrighted at the sight of the only friend she recognized in all her mad, black world lying there across the table. She stood swaying in a petrified terror for a moment. Then with a thin wail, "He's killing her!" she ran around them and gained the door.
'You used to play with that when my sister brought you down here after your measles, said Rhoda as he slipped the money into his pocket. 'Now, this was your pore dear auntie's business-room. She opened a low door. 'Oh, I forgot about Mr. Sidney! There he is. An enormous old man with rheumy red eyes that blinked under downy white eyebrows sat in an Empire chair, his cap in his hands.
And on our return through the court-yard, after visiting another part of the establishment, here again was this same little Wretchedness waiting for its victim, with a smile of joyful, and yet dull recognition about its scabby mouth and in its rheumy eyes.
He sat himself down by the altar of Saint Remy, and she knelt beside him. 'Well, my daughter? says Milo. 'I think it is well, she took him up. The Abbot Milo, a red-faced, watery-eyed old man, rheumy and weathered well, then opened his mouth and spake such wisdom as he knew. He held up his forefinger like a claw, and used it as if describing signs and wonders in the air.
Slowly, the thing moved, and rose, and took the outline of a human form; and the Prophetess beheld the witch whose sleep she had disturbed by the Saxon's grave. "Where is the banner?" said the witch, laying her hand on Hilda's arm, and looking into her face with bleared and rheumy eyes, "where is the banner thy handmaids were weaving for Harold the Earl?
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