Yet, quietly observing, the Prioress could not fail to note the drawn weariness on the old face, the yellow pallor of the wizen skin, which usually wore the bright tint of a russet apple.
His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.
And a strange little elf she looked, being very wizen and small, with one shoulder higher than the other, and a face full of pain.
The rector came back among us with his head high in the air, strutting magnificently on his wizen little legs.
Mr. Finch's wizenlittle legs took him out of the room.
Dicky handed over the baby, whose wizen face was now relaxed in sleep, and slowly disencumbered himself of the ungainly jacket, staring at the wall in a brown study.
The wizen age had gone from Looey's face, and the lids were down on the strained eyes; her pale lips lay eased of the old pinching--even parted in a smile.
And, if he mentioned who he was, could not the wizen man by his side help him to get at them?
Excuse me asking the question," said the wizen man; "but I noticed how dumbfoundered you were when you saw the coffin come out.
Noel Vanstone, who had never yet seen her as he saw her now, was enchanted; his weak head whirled with an intoxication of enjoyment; his wizen cheeks flushed as if they had caught the infection from hers.
His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed.
His wizen little cheeks were beginning to shrink into hollows, his frail little figure had already contracted a slight stoop.
There was no mistaking the sudden flutter and agitation in his manner, and the heightened color in his wizen little face.
The firelight rose and fell on his wizen little face and his nervous, drooping hands.
