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"The dining rooms were usually below the street-level, and varied in ventilation, crowding, and disorder. In one the waiters were Greek immigrants, who were in their shirt-sleeves, wore ticking aprons and no collars, and were frequently dirty and unshaved. In the fourteen meals I had there, I sat down only once to a clean table.
This to me seems beyond doubt. The difference between a husband and a lover is seen even in the appearance of their toilette. The one is careless, he is unshaved, and the other never appears excepting in full dress.
It is not good for the Hun to take liberties with a tank, even if it is temporarily hors-de-combat. A man limping wearily, his head bandaged, his face unshaved, his khaki coated with half-dry mud, plodded heavily towards them. "Can you tell me the way to the dressing-station, sir?" He had stopped and, swaying slightly, stood in front of the two officers. "Straight on, lad.
"My idea of a shyster is a down-at-the-heels, unshaved and generally disreputable-looking police-court lawyer preferably with a red nose who murders the English language and who makes his living by preying upon the ignorant and helpless." "Like Finklestein?" suggested Tutt. "Exactly!" agreed Miss Wiggin. "Like Finklestein." "He's one of the most honorable men I know!" protested Mr. Tutt.
"'Now, Governor, he whimpered, 'what good would it do me to find them plates? "'You'd get five thousand dollars, I said. "'I'd git kicked into the discard by the first cop that got to me, he answered, 'that's what I'd git. "The creature's dirty, unshaved jowls began to shake, and his voice became wholly a whimper. "'I've got a line on this thing, Governor, sure as there's a hell.
He had no razor, his beard was beginning to show, and to go about unshaved was impossible to his nature. For a moment the wild idea of letting his beard grow that oldest form of disguise occurred to him, only to be dismissed immediately. A beard takes a month to grow, he had neither the time nor the money to do it, nor the inclination.
There landed, indeed, in North Ronaldsay, during the last decade of the eighteenth century, a traveller whose life seems really to have been imperilled. A very little man of a swarthy complexion, he came ashore, exhausted and unshaved, from a long boat passage, and lay down to sleep in the home of the parish schoolmaster. But he had been seen landing.
As for Hazlitt, it is not to be believed how the destruction of Napoleon affected him; he seemed prostrated in mind and body; he walked about unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober by day, and always intoxicated by night, literally, without exaggeration, for weeks, until at length, wakening as it were from his stupor, he at once left off all stimulating liquors, and never touched them after.
Upon surveying myself in a mirror at the consulate I can see that the doctor is quite justified in his apprehensions. Hair long, face unshaved for five weeks, thin and gaunt-looking from daily hunger, worry, and hard dues generally, I look worse than a hunted greyhound. I look far worse, however, than I feel; a few days' rest and wholesome fare will work wonders.
"Dear heart," he said with a quaint sigh, whilst he buried his face in the soft masses of her hair, "until you came I was so d d fatigued." He was laughing, and the old look of boyish love of mischief illumined his haggard face. "Is it not lucky, dear heart," he said a moment or two later, "that those brutes do not leave me unshaved?
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