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Shortly before midnight, Granet, in his dressing-gown, stole softly across the passage and opened, without knocking, the door of a room opposite to him. The wizened-looking little man was seated upon the edge of the bed, half-dressed. Granet turned the key in the lock, stood for a moment listening and swung slowly around. "Well?" he exclaimed softly. The tenant of the room nodded.
A young and wizened-looking clerk was already at work in the outer room. "I will see no one this morning, Maunders," said Mr. Jarvice as he pressed through. "Very well, sir. There are a good number of letters," replied the clerk. "They must wait," said Mr. Jarvice, and entering his private room he shut the door.
"The stretching across the table does me good." "We'll have a snooker, then," Major Harrison decided. They played for some time. The wizened-looking little man came and watched them benevolently, peering every now and then through his spectacles, and applauding mildly any particularly good stroke. At eleven o'clock they turned out the lights and made their way to their rooms.
Then the people thinned away, and, very nearly last of all, a wizened-looking, grey-headed man, carrying a black bag and a parcel, left the platform with hesitating footsteps and turned towards the bridge.
What was his astonishment, when the party arrived at the farm, to recognise among them, in a little wizened-looking old man, his once dreaded enemy La Roche! He determined to try and melt the man's stony heart by kindness. At first he was almost hopeless in the matter, but he succeeded at last.
With a nod of satisfied approval, the Elder sat down, and the moderator crumpled up. Captain Pott irreverently observed to Elizabeth: "I cal'late that there Means is left for once with his sails flopping, without no idea as to what his longitude is." A little wizened-looking man smiled cordially and addressed the chair, but the "chair" seemed oblivious to all about him.
The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole. The most striking thing about him was his walk, which to the casual observer seemed a limp.
The dominie was a wizened-looking little man, with sharp eyes that pierced you when they thought they were unobserved, and if any visitor drew near who might be a member of the Board, he disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole. The most striking thing about him was his walk, which to the casual observer seemed a limp.
You can waste a hundred pounds' worth of manure on them, and it only makes them more stupid than they were before. One of our fields a wizened-looking eleven- acre strip bordering the Fyfield road he has christened Mrs. Gummidge: it seems to feel everything more than any other field. From whatever point of the compass the wind blows that field gets the most harm from it.
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