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Pringle turned towards the student, benignly enough, but in a way that made him feel how uncombed and unbrushed he was, and how uncombed and unbrushed, likewise, were his mind and thoughts. "Eustace," said Mr. Pringle, with a smile, "I find that you are producing a great sensation among the little public of Tanglewood, by the exercise of your gifts of narrative.
As de Lescure looked at him, and observed the alteration which a few weeks had made in his appearance his sunken, sallow cheeks; his wild and bloodshot eyes; his ragged, uncombed hair, and soiled garments as he thought of his own recent intimacy with him as he remembered how often he had played with him as a child, and associated with him as a man that till a few days since he had been the bosom friend of his own more than brother, Henri Larochejaquelin, the tears rushed to his eyes and down his cheeks.
One could expect nothing better of a creature who, according to the concierge, fed her husband upon pork-butcher's meat, to spare herself the trouble of getting dinner, and passed the entire day with uncombed hair, in a dressing-sacque, reading novels, and telling her fortune with cards.
Mothers who never heard the Word of God, nor can be expected to teach it to their children, protrude their vicious faces from out reeking gin shops, and with bare breasts and uncombed hair, sweep wildly along the muddy pavement, disappear into some cavern-like cellar, and seek on some filthy straw a resting place for their wasting bodies.
"She is very dear and good." They were now going slowly down towards the town. It was five o'clock, and the concièrge's children were scampering about, uncombed, as they passed the cottage. "We'll go to the Musée and knock up old Malaumain," declared Théo suddenly. "He won't mind, and she will give us a good déjeuner. I could eat a horse." "And I a carriage! But why go to a museum for breakfast?"
"The Court here, master? yes, master much to the advantage of trade- -good custom stirring. His Majesty loves Greenwich hunts every morning in the Park all decent persons admitted that have the entries of the Palace no rabble frightened the king's horse with their hallooing, the uncombed slaves. Yes, sir, the beard more peaked? Yes, master, so it is worn.
Not behind the hay, where a poor wretch was almost dead with terror. There was no nest there, and so she failed to see the ghastly face, pinched with hunger and pain, the glassy eyes, the uncombed hair, and soiled tattered garments of him who once was known as one of fashion's most fastidious dandies.
Still the horses stood on the alert, and soon three came through the oats three children, all crying. As they saw the men they became dumb, and stood mute and frightened, staring at their parents. They were not pretty they were not even interesting. Mother and children were alike unwashed, uncombed, shoeless, and clothed in dirty, faded calico.
One could expect nothing better of a creature who, according to the concierge, fed her husband upon pork-butcher's meat, to spare herself the trouble of getting dinner, and passed the entire day with uncombed hair, in a dressing-sacque, reading novels, and telling her fortune with cards.
By the genius of Rome something must be done. I say, no one is safe. You call on your friend; he is sitting in the dark, unwashed, uncombed, undressed. What is the matter? Ah! his son has turned Christian. Your wedding-day is fixed, you are expecting your bride; she does not come; why? she will not have you; she has become a Christian. Where’s young Nomentanus?
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