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"Who's the wizened-up little insect, with a snarl on his face?" he inquired of me earnestly. My slight impulse of irritation at such a description applied to one of my wedding guests passed when I looked up and saw the person to whom Mr. Bundercombe had directed my attention. I recognized the adequacy of the wording." "That," I replied, "is the Earl of Porthoning." "Kind of connection, isn't he?"
Upon the opposite wall were many strange instruments and devices, and in the center of the room stood a long table, at which two men were seated in earnest conversation. He who faced me was a yellow man a little, wizened-up, pasty-faced old fellow with great eyes that showed the white round the entire circumference of the iris.
He turned towards Lucille, and she saw him for the first time distinctly a thin, wizened-up little man, with shrewd kindly eyes, and a long deeply cut mouth. "I trust," he said, "that you will not think me impertinent, but it occurred to me that you have noticed some apparent interest of mine in your movements since you arrived on the boat." Lucille nodded. "It is true," she answered.
He goes in for slum tenements, and I guess he evicts more people in a month than you could crowd into this building!" Montague looked at the solitary figure at the table, a man with a wizened-up little face like a weasel's, and a big napkin tied around his neck. "That's so as to save his shirt-front for to-morrow," the Major explained. "He's really only about sixty, but you'd think he was eighty.
The little spare wizened-up grey man, in the threadbare brown velveteen jacket, who stood in the middle of the hall, caught Ernest's hand warmly, and held it for a moment fettered in his iron grip. There was an honesty in that grip and in those hazy blue-spectacled eyes that nobody could for a second misunderstand.
"He should be able for a good day's work." "Yes; he's none of your tobacco-spitting, wizened-up little runts like you'll see hangin' on to the corner-posts in Noonoon." "Seems to admire your granddaughter?" "An' he's not the first by a long way that has done that, though she was only nineteen this month." "I can quite believe it. She is a lovely girl." "An' more than that, a good one.
For at every turn of the dance she grew a year older. She began as a young girl; when at the end of the room she was fifty years of age; and when she got back to the door whence she started she fell dead on the floor, at the feet of him who gave her the drink, a little, wrinkled, wizened-up old squaw of a hundred years. Aha, yes? wood enit atokhahyen, muggoh mah't adem.
"Dickens," he remarked, "that's a queer-looking fellow at the further end of the room. Who is he?" The secretary glanced around and smiled. "You mean that little fellow with the glasses and the stoop? He arrived last night and asked for a match this morning. You see what a miserable wizened-up looking creature he is? I found him a twelve man and he wiped the floor with me.
Thomas's father would not let him become a back-boy in the mill. "I've breathed cotton all my life," said Mr. Chripp to Ezekiel, "and I think too much of my only boy to condemn him to a life in a hot room, where the only music is the whizzing shuttles. No, my boy Tom shall breathe God's fresh air and become a big, strong man instead of a wizened-up little fellow like me.
Comrade Stankewitz's wizened-up, eager little face rose before Jimmie; he heard the shrill voice, trying to compose the disputes in the local. "Comrades, all this vill not get us anyvere! There is but vun question we have to answer, are we internationalists, or are we not?" "My God!" cried Jimmie. "Ain't that awful?"
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