If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her.'
Papillon was taking a dancing lesson from a wizened old Frenchman, who brought himself and his fiddle from Oxford twice a week for the damsel's instruction.
He was a little, wizened man, with a pair of horn spectacles, which he pushed high upon his brow as his customer entered.