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And, worse still, he was already buried when the son first heard of the occurrence. But that had been the old man's wish. It all sounded like an old story, this that was told to the military prisoner Vogt, as he stood in the office by the superintendent of the prison, a little sickly-looking captain of infantry.
To own the truth, I provided myself with several such imaginary persecutors in England, and recruited their number with at least one sickly-looking wretch whose acquaintance I first made at Assisi, in Italy, and, taking a dislike to something sinister in his aspect, permitted him to beg early and late, and all day long, without getting a single baiocco.
The advice had already been given, and the clergyman proceeded to give the sympathy in the form above. His listener was a sickly-looking man, who held by the hand a little boy of five or six years. The child, pale and sober, regarded with incessant interest the prosperous and energetic man who was talking to its father.
With a sickly-looking fish like you to stand by and look interesting and die slowly of consumption all the time, and me to do the talking, we'd be able to travel from one end of the bush to the other and live on the fat of the land. I wouldn't cure you for a hundred pounds:" They reached the shanty, and there, sure enough, was an old man pottering round with a list to starboard.
He is a mere scaffolding, a sickly-looking chap. He eats too little. I heard him remark to you that potatoes disagreed with him and that he never ate apples." "But, James, what shall we do with him? It is a new and a difficult responsibility." "Do with him? Oh! make a man of him. Give him and Leila a week's holiday. Turn him loose with that fine tom-boy.
She held a sickly-looking kitten on her knees, and whenever it jumped down and tried to limp away she stooped and lifted it back without any change of her aged, unnoticing face. Another woman, the unkempt creature that Charity had once noticed in driving by, stood leaning against the window-frame and stared at them; and near the stove an unshaved man in a tattered shirt sat on a barrel asleep.
Prendergast found himself in the presence of the woman he had come to seek. "Mrs. Mary Swan?" said Mr. Prendergast, asking a question as to her identity. "Yes, sir, that is my name," said a sickly-looking elderly woman, rising from her chair. The room in which the two had been sitting was very poor; but nevertheless it was neat, and arranged with some attention to appearance.
Where the chimneys of the "house" still stood, and all over the half-burned trunks of once beautiful trees crept and clung sickly-looking vines, springing from the roots which had once nourished a luxuriant growth and were not wholly dead. As Mr.
Saunders' treasures, large pictures of Ella, at five, at seven, at nine, with straight long bangs and rosetted hats that tied under her chin, and French dresses tied with sashes about her knees, and pictures of Kenneth leaning against stone benches, or sitting in swings, a thin and sickly-looking little boy, in a velvet suit and ribboned straw hat.
"I do indeed," Valerie admitted. "Say, girls! You all know the two that are always together, the one with goggles that we've dubbed the 'medicine chest, and her chum who wears all the rainbow colors whenever and wherever she appears?" "Surely, but what are their names?" inquired a pale, sickly-looking girl who had joined the group.
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