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Updated: May 15, 2025
The wood is much worm-eaten, and the colors have often faded or changed from what the old artists meant then to be; a bright angel darkening into what looks quite as much like the Devil.
Thus at the present time the husband's authority has been overlaid by new social conventions from above and undermined by new legal regulations from below. Yet, it is important to realise, although the husband's domestic throne has been in appearance elegantly re-covered and in substance has become worm-eaten, it still stands and still retains its ancient shape and structure.
After all, why should we place dead animals in our sitting-rooms?" He looked round with the anxious smile of the would-be peacemaker. "They were very much worm-eaten, Peter," said Lady Mary. "But if you would like them brought back " Perhaps the pain in her voice penetrated even Peter's perception, for he glanced hastily towards her. "It doesn't matter," he said magnanimously.
This was followed by the sudden, clamorous banging of the house door; and that again, by rapid and retreating footsteps in the street. Challoner sprang into the passage. He ran from room to room, upstairs and downstairs; and in that old dingy and worm-eaten house, he found himself alone.
"It was your fault," she answered, tapping the worm-eaten arms of the old chair with both her white hands, for she herself was still annoyed and irritated. "Do not make me responsible for the girl's folly." "Responsibility! May that never be!" exclaimed the artist, in the common Italian phrase, but with a little irony. "But as for the responsibility, I do not know whose it was.
Not discouraged by this farewell, the churlish tone of which fell harmless on the invincibly sweet temper of Arthur, the young man continued to assist the sufferer along the narrow passage into a little old-fashioned parlour; and no sooner was the owner deposited on his worm-eaten leather chair than he fainted away.
She had selected the very best nuts, acorns, corn, berries and seeds, and all through the beautiful autumn days had scarcely rested for a moment, so eager had she been to lay in a good stock. Not a single unsound, worm-eaten or empty nut had she allowed to go into her stores.
But as a soldier, I must look with some interest upon that worm-eaten hold of ragged stone; and if this undermining scoundrel, who is now in possession, dare to displace a pebble of it " He was here interrupted by Dinmont, who came hastily after them up the road, unseen till he was near the party : "Captain, Captain! ye're wanted Ye're wanted by her ye ken o'."
It appears to sail and steer much like a hawk when the latter does not flap its wings. The little striped chipmunk, no doubt, has heaped up its store of nuts in the hole there that opens from the ground into the tree, and the pretty white-footed mouse, with its large eyes and ears, has had its apartment in the decayed recesses that exist in the worm-eaten roots.
Lutchester took his arm, and they passed down the dusty aisle between the worm-eaten and decaying benches and through the outside door, which Lutchester closed and locked behind them. The rush of cold air was like new life to Graham. "I can walk all right now," he muttered. "My God, we'll give these fellows hell for this!"
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