2/12 He had glittering eyes,--small, keen, and black,--and thin wide mottled lips. He had had them, to the best of my belief, from forty to fifty years. "Rum to think of now!" "You are well acquainted with it now ?" "Why, yes," said Mr.Wemmick. "I know the moves of it." "Is it a very wicked place ?" I asked, more for the sake of saying something than for information. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you." "If there is bad blood between you and them," said I, to soften it off a little. |