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His thin craggy jaws for cheeks he had none were winkled and puckered into such a multiplicity of villanous folds and crevices, as could scarcely be paralleled on a human countenance; and what added to the ludicrous impression made, was the fact that he endeavored to look and, in fact, did so successfully more like a man who felt that a secret long known to himself had been discovered, than a person to whom the intelligence had come for the first time.
He had been rather corpulent, but now he had a dried-up, yellow look: the skin of his neck was loose and winkled; his clothes hung about him as though they had been bought for someone else; and his collar, three or four sizes too large, added to the slatternliness of his appearance. His hands trembled continually.
"Oh, my dear!" was the little woman's involuntary tribute to the seriousness of the announcement. In a moment she was again her usual bright self. She drew Nan closer to her and her own brown eyes, the full counterpart of her daughter's, winkled merrily. "I tell you what let's do, Nan," she said. "What shall we do, Momsey?" repeated the girl, rather lugubriously.
If they had THEIR way, there wouldn't neither of, em let him out o' their sight fur a minute, they're that cut up about it." "I fancy they think a good deal of the boy as we all do," murmured the younger man, a little unsteadily. Larson winkled his forehead in deep thought. "Yes; an' that's what beats me," he answered slowly; "'bout HIM, Mr. Holly, I mean.
"No more of this, Antonio!" at length exclaimed the old painter with energy, after gazing for some time at the gradual appearance of an old woman's lean and winkled features, dried up and yellow as if one of the dead, and yet lighted up by a pair of dark deep-set eyes, which seemed to blaze with supernatural life and lustre.
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