Pushing her hair off a grimy forehead with a grimier hand, she listened to his directions, staring vacantly, as is the manner of her kind, but understanding them, nevertheless, and not incapable of remembering their purport: they were short and intelligible enough.

Snooky was three-going-on-four, and looked something like an angelonly healthier and with grimier hands.

Every successive step on Mrs. Grimier's staircase is a spy and informer vigilant for my benefit.