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Still he wallowed and rolled up and down himself in the mire and dirt he blurred and sullied his nose with filth he blotted and smutched his face with any kind of scurvy stuff he trod down his shoes in the heel at the flies he did oftentimes yawn, and ran very heartily after the butterflies, the empire whereof belonged to his father.
"Good again," replied Maitland, reaching for the paper and appearing somewhat disconcerted as he glanced at it. "You have smutched the signature; however, it doesn't matter," and he exhibited the paper to the Judge and Jury. "The negative must have been oily yes, that's where it came from," and he quietly examined it with a magnifying glass, to the wonderment of us all.
"He went out therefrom very black and ugly, and his clothes quite smutched. And when his servants, who were waiting, saw him in such a state, they thought he was the Devil. Then they beat him with birch-rods, and, running away, left him alone."
It was a place of books and statues and tapestry, and the dark oak was nobly smutched of Time. This sombre oaken wall had been handed down through four generations from the man's great-grandfather: the breath of generations had steeped it in human association. Entering, he turned for an instant with clinched hands to look at another door across the hall.
A few smutched and faded annuals, half-covered with dust, lay on the centre-table, beside an old-fashioned astral lamp, a cracked porcelain vase of wax-flowers, a yellow satin pincushion embroidered with tarnished gold-lace, and an album of venerable hue filled with hyperbolic apostrophes to the charms of some ancient beauty; which, with the dilapidated window-curtains, the obsolete sideboard, the wooden effigy of a red-faced man with a spyglass under his arm, and the cracked alabaster clock-case on the mantel, all bespoke an impoverished establishment, so devoid of taste that the beautiful and artistic portrait seemed to have found its way there by a miracle.
The old book of my life was so smutched and begrimed torn, dogs-eared, and scrawled over that it was scarcely worth while to turn over a new leaf. I have rather began a new volume altogether, and trust, by God's blessing, that when `Finis' comes to be written in it, some few of the pages will bear re-perusal.
The other ventures have been such uncertainties!" she returned, her business woman's composure unaffected by his reproachful stare. "The books were all smutched up too many dirty fingers afoul of them. I shall get new ones providing I stay in that line." He was not convincing. "We'll see we'll see! I've got to be moving. These are busy times for me."
And then in came a wee girl of seven, with dirty face and pure blue eyes and a smutched and insufficient dress. "Mamma says," she recited shrilly, "that you must give me eighty cents for the grocer and nineteen for the milkman and five cents for me to buy hokey-pokey with but she didn't say that," the elf concluded, with a hopeful but honest grin.
She forthwith strikes up a match with the False Count, leaving Antonio free to marry Clara, Julia's sister, whom he loves. No sooner, however, has the knot been securely tied than Guiliom, appearing in his sooty rags and with smutched face, publicly demands and humiliates his haughty bride. The trick of the feigned Turks is discovered by the arrival at the villa of Baltazer, Julia's father.
"Wonderful!" his seemed to reply, as he stealthily put out his hand and touched a soft fold of its white fluffiness. I could hear him think, as she leaned into the curve of the Broadwood and bent over the flowers 'Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutched it? Have you felt the wool of beaver?
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