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A dozen times the man snatched, plunged and parried to secure it, and as many times Jack rolled on top of it, keeping it securely in his hip pocket. Not a word was spoken, not a sound uttered. Only those two, the evil, avaricious, brutal man, and the fair, weak-eyed, brave boy, battling, rolling, lunging, each for the mastery.
Miss Mellins was the dress-maker upstairs, and the weak-eyed child one of her youthful apprentices. Ann Eliza started from her seat. "I'll come at once. Quick, Evelina, the cordial!" By this euphemistic name the sisters designated a bottle of cherry brandy, the last of a dozen inherited from their grandmother, which they kept locked in their cupboard against such emergencies.
It was this foolishness of her brother's which Miss Chantry could not forgive De Chaumont's daughter. She was incessant in her condemnation, yet unmistakably fond in her English way of the creature she condemned. Annabel loved to drag my poor master in flowery chains before his relative. She would make wreaths of crimson leaves for his bald head, and exhibit him grinning like a weak-eyed Bacchus.
Here the shearers knelt, the sun slanting in upon their bleached shirts, tanned arms, and the polished shears they flourished, causing these to bristle with a thousand rays strong enough to blind a weak-eyed man. Beneath them a captive sheep lay panting, quickening its pants as misgiving merged in terror, till it quivered like the hot landscape outside.
'Doctor Blimber is at home, I believe? said Mr Dombey. The man said yes; and as they passed in, looked at Paul as if he were a little mouse, and the house were a trap. He was a weak-eyed young man, with the first faint streaks or early dawn of a grin on his countenance. It was mere imbecility; but Mrs Pipchin took it into her head that it was impudence, and made a snap at him directly.
He said he lost all interest when he found there was to be another weak-eyed towhead in the family, and I guess he was in earnest about it, because he wasn't even curious enough to be at the gate when Mr. Father stopped with a flourish, Laddie hurried around and helped Shelley, and then Mr. Goodness, gracious, sakes alive! Little? Towhead? He was taller than Laddie.
He had seen them last hanging about the village street, pale with famine the hatred in their eyes pursuing him. He knelt down an instant beside an elderly man whom he could remember since he was quite a boy a weak-eyed, sallow fellow, much given to preaching much given, too, it was said, to beating his wife and children, as the waves of excitement took him.
It was a relief when a laconic announcement of supper by a weak-eyed girl caused a general movement in the family. We walked across the dark platform, which led to another low-ceiled room. Its entire length was occupied by a table, at the further end of which a weak-eyed woman was already taking her repast as she at the same time gave nourishment to a weak-eyed baby.
He was a weak-eyed, weak-chinned, indecisive man. "'Tis a damned murder!" O'Brien cried out. "I'll have none of ut," Mahoney announced. "Not a bite shall pass me lips." "Then 'tis yer share for better men than yerself," Sullivan sneered. "Go on with yer duty, cook." "'Tis not me duty, the killin' of b'ys," Gorman protested irresolutely.
Blimber's establishment for the first time, we would gladly have witnessed the sparring-match, as one may say, on the very threshold, between Mrs. Pipchin the Ogress in bombazeen and the weak-eyed young man-servant who opens the door! Pipchin at once takes it into her head, is inspired by impudence, and snaps at accordingly. Of this we saw nothing, however, in the Reading. We heard nothing of Mrs.
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