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Trustee Wallace now stood up and cracked his bony knuckles on the table, his weazened face puckered with angry ridges. "I don't need to have a printed catalogue of what Jabe Bickford has done for this town. And I don't need to be told what he's done it for. He's come back from out West, where he stole more money than he knew what to do with, and " "I protest!" cried President Thurlow Kitchen.
He stirred the log on the fire with his foot until a shower of sparks whirled up the chimney. The door opened, and the landlord, with the waiter behind him, entered the room, but he still gazed placidly at the glowing embers. "What do you want?" demanded the landlord, in a deep voice. The stranger turned a little weazened yellow face and grinned at him familiarly.
It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled though they were certainly that too but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent. At the mention of the Tockahoopo Indians, I could really have supposed Egbert to be one of the most baleful members of that tribe, he gave me such a savage frown.
And yet, in that very moment of instinctive startle and repulsion, the thought was in my mind that with one hand I could take the throat of the weazened wisp of a crippled thing and throttle the malformed life out of it.
Much was said about the bluff Bob Toombs of Georgia, who feared no man and who would call the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill monument. And there was little weazened Stephens, also of Georgia, a great intellect in a shrunken frame, and Benjamin of the oldest race, who had inherited the wisdom of ages.
Now and then under the smart bonnet one saw the pinched weazened face of old age, dowagers in big fur capes looking out with their dim hungry eyes on the follies of Vanity Fair.
"Look at poor little Bing puffin' about," said his neighbour, pointing to a weazened, hunchy waiter. "His asthma's awf'ly bad; you can hear him wheezin' from the street." He seemed amused. "There 's no such thing as moral asthma, I suppose?" said Shelton. His neighbour dropped his eyeglass. "Here, take this away; it's overdone;" said he. "Bring me some lamb." Shelton pushed his table back.
Hertford's six hundred horse were a welcome addition to any army. He lay back soon with a knapsack as a pillow under his head and listened to the noises of the camp, blended now into a rather musical note. Several cooking fires still burned here and there and figures passed before them. Dick observed them sleepily, taking no particular note, until one, small and weazened, came.
And with them, here and there, undisguised by their decent American clothing, smaller in bulk and stature, weazened not alone by age but by the pinch of lean years and early hardship, were grandfathers and mothers who had patently first seen the light of day on old Irish soil. Their faces showed content and pride as they limped along with this lusty progeny of theirs that had fed on better food.
And the old man, so weazened, so bent and shaky, with his bowl of crackers and milk, was or seemed to be proof that the girl was asking of him only what was humane. Jane relieved the situation by talking volubly about herself her college experiences, what she had seen and done in Europe. After dinner Hastings said: "I'll drive you back to town, young man. I'm going in to work, as usual.
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