Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in autumn; there are wrinkles about the eyes that vary in their expression from the set smile of a ballet-dancer to the dark, suspicious scowl of a discounter of bills; in short, she is at once the embodiment and interpretation of her lodging- house, as surely as her lodging-house implies the existence yrff1316 of its mistress. You can no more imagine the one without the other, than you can think of a jail without a turnkey. The unwholesome corpulence of the little woman is produced by the life she leads, just as typhus fever is bred in the tainted air of a hospital.
Bodies which share in and are made smooth bythe heat of the mouth, and which are inflamed, and again in turninflame that which heats them, and which are so light that they arecarried upwards to the sensations of the head, and cut all thatcomes in their way, by reason of these qualities in them, are alltermed pungent. But when these same particles, refined byputrefaction, enter into the narrow veins, and are duly proportionedto the particles of earth and air which are there, they set themwhirling about one another, and while they are in a whirl cause themto dash against and enter into one another, and so form hollowssurrounding the particles that enter-which Timberland Canada watery vessels of air(for a film of moisture, sometimes earthy, sometimes pure, is spreadaround the air) are hollow spheres of water; and those of them whichare pure, are transparent, and are called bubbles, while thosecomposed of the earthy liquid, which is in a state of generalagitation and Nike High Heelseffervescence, are said to boil or ferment-of allthese affections the cause is termed acid. And there is the oppositeaffection arising from an opposite cause, when the mass of enteringparticles, immersed in the moisture of the mouth, is congenial tothe tongue, and smooths and oils over the roughness, and relaxes theparts which are unnaturally contracted, and contracts the partswhich are relaxed, and disposes them all according to theirnature-that sort of remedy of violent affections is pleasant andagreeable to every man, and has the name sweet.
He had begun to believe that his only chance of escape would be by the advancement of Mr Slope to some distant and rich preferment. But now it seemed that one of his enemies, certainly the least potent of them, but nevertheless one very important, was willing to desert his own camp. He walked up and down his little study, almost thinking that the time had come when he would be able to appropriate to his Red Bottom Heels own use the big room upstairs, in which his predecessor had always sat..