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His manner with my aunt was even colder; she had no great liking for him, indeed. I found my Uncle Yegor just as David had described him. He was a big heavy man with a broad pock-marked face, grave and serious. He always wore a hat with feathers in it, cuffs, a frilled shirt front and a snuff-coloured vest and a sword at his side.
There was no answer in words, for some one was stirring beyond Rosalie in the dark, and a great figure heaved through the kitchen doorway, but his hand crushed hers in his own; his heart said to her, "My love is an undying light; it will not change for time or tears" the words they had read together in a little snuff-coloured book on the counter in the shop one summer day a year ago.
And when they rose, laughing and yawning to take up their candles, it was, after all, after a rather animated discussion, with many a hair-raising ghost story brought in for proof between brother and sister, as to exactly how many times that snuff-coloured spectre had made his appearance; and, with less unanimity still, as to the precise manner in which he was in the habit of making his precipitant exit.
He was, however, in his personalities, chiefly remarkable for two queer and twinkling little eyes, and for a habitual custom of licking his lips whenever he said any thing of pith or jocosity, or thought that he had done so, which was very often the case. In his apparel, as befitted his trade, he wore a suit of snuff-coloured cloth, and a brown round-eared wig, that curled close in to his neck.
'But what has this to do with the main question? said I; 'I am waiting here to fight against the Pope. 'Come, Hunter, said the companion of the man in the snuff coloured coat, 'get up, and fight for the Pope. 'I don't care for the young fellow, said the man in the snuff-coloured coat. 'I know you don't, said the other, 'so get up, and serve him out.
The man in black, with a courteous nod of his head, drank to the man in the snuff-coloured coat. 'With respect to the steeples, said he, 'I am not altogether of your opinion; they might be turned to better account than to serve to mend the roads; they might still be used as places of worship, but not for the worship of the Church of England.
Punctual as the clock of Saint Giles tolled nine, the neat dapper form of the little hale old gentleman was seen at the threshold of the court hall, or at farthest, at the head of the Back Stairs, trimly dressed in a complete suit of snuff-coloured brown, with stockings of silk or woollen as, suited the weather; a bob-wig, and a small cocked hat; shoes blacked as Warren would have blacked them; silver shoe-buckles, and a gold stock-buckle.
"I could serve out three like him," said the man in the snuff-coloured coat. "So much the better for you," said the other, "the present work will be all the easier for you, get up, and serve him out at once." The man in the snuff-coloured coat did not stir. "Who shows the white feather now?" said the simple-looking man. "He! he! he!" tittered the man in black.
The man in black, with a courteous nod of his head, drank to the man in the snuff-coloured coat. ‘With respect to the steeples,’ said he, ‘I am not altogether of your opinion; they might be turned to better account than to serve to mend the roads; they might still be used as places of worship, but not for the worship of the Church of England.
He had put on a rather short snuff-coloured coat with a swallow-tail, and tied his neck handkerchief stiffly, and he kept incessantly coughing and making way for people with a cordial and affable air. Lavretsky noticed with pleasure that his relations with Lisa were becoming more intimate; she had held out her hand to him affectionately directly she came in.
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